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FIRST PERSON educ;ation and enga!{ernent after wi nning Bringing justice to a the Zurich Classic. Meredith White (BSEd '08, AB '08) of Savannah was foreign land named a vVTOC-TV Top Teacher fclr her work teaching Spanish I and English by Thomas Rawlings {JD '92) II at Benedictine Milita1-y School. Avery Leigh Cox (BFA '09) hel ped install Some days my work feels familiar: the bedroom designed for the Kips Bay discussing the therapy needs of a sexually Decorator Show H ouse, which was on abused ch1ld; organ1zrng train1ng for child display until l'v1ay 26. Cox is a junior forens1c 1nterv1ewers; and working With law designer at Amanda N isbet Design. yers to ensure an accused ch1ld molester faces trial. It all feels l1ke the work I've done 2010- 1n Georgia for the past decade as a JUvenile Jaime Bcnator (!\II 'I 0) of Marietta court JUdge and state child advocate. received the U.S. Army N urse Corps Th1s t1me, however, the work IS 1n Spir·it of ursing Award. She was Guatemala City, where I'm spend1ng three nominated by the fac:ully at Georgia years as director of a field office of the Baptist College of N ursing of Mercer lntemat1onal Just1ce Mrssron (IJM). University. Carlye Jean Clark (BSEd IJM brrngs legal representation and rntegrated socral services to vict1ms of '10) of Franldin, · u~nn . , was promoted to oppression, including hurrjan trafficking, bonded labor or child sexual abuse. IJM the position of sports c:oordinator at the lawyers, 1nvestrgators and social serv1ces professionals bring to the victim what is Franklin Family Yl'v1CA. often out of reach for the poor rn the underdeveloped world: JUStice and restoration. For the past frve years in Guatemala, IJM has focused on representing child v1ctrms of sexual abuse. a serious problem w1th an estimated 8,000 or more vic GRAD NOTES tims each year. Only 2,500 are officially reported, a fract1on of whrch go to trral. Agricultural and The work can be hearbreaking but also heartwarming. Sometrmes vict1ms are Emcironmental Sciences vindicated, as 1n a case last year Involving one of the 10,000 families who make Oevegowda Gopal (PhD '76), a practic: the1r liVIng p1ckrng up usable trash in the Guatemala C1ty dump. Our client fam ing veterinarian of j acksonville, Fla., is ily-four chrldren and their mother - suffered years of sexual and physrcal abuse an advisor to the College of Veterinary by the father. Grven relief at last and moved to a safer locatron, that family last fall l'vledicine at the University of Florida in parttcrpated rn his trral and conviction. He was sentenced to 95 years 1n prison. (;aincsvillc, fla. Lance Bolton (BBA Referrals to UM corne most often from the attorney general's office or from '88, M S '95, PhO '97) o( Colorado other nonprofit agenctes such as Doctors W1thout Borders. UM socral workers Springs, Colo., was n

48 GEORGIA MAGAZINE • www.uga.edu/gm '05) of Canton was named a 2011 Mover seat. He works as the sales director for & Shaker by lhe Lilmrry }onmal for her Austin-based Bazaarvoicc. Jadun Mc work as a libn1rian at Creek-view Iligh Carthy OD '05) of Atlanta was named School. Anissa Heath Johnson (Ed$ Georgia's 20 12 Teacher of the Yea r. '03) is the principal of Fowl ~ r Drive The Georgia Department of Education Elementary School in Clarkb County. selected McCarthy from 154 teachers Alvetta Peterman Thomas (EdD '04) across the state nominated for the title. of Fayetteville, Ca., was nan ed a Super Terri Ryan Stewart (BBA '03, JD '06) woman by Atltmtn Tribrme maga<~,inc. She of Atlanta was chosen to be a member on is president of Atlanta Technical College. the T.E.W i\rlanta Class of 201 2. T. EAD Shannon Hammond (BSEd '95 , EdS is an initiative of Leadership Atlanta, '05) of\~linde r was elected t rbe board the oldest sustained community leader of directors of lhe Professiorpl Asso ship progmm in the nation. Stewarr is ciation of Ccorgia Ecluc:n orJ. Ginger an associatt: with Athtnta-hased Fisher & Mathis (EdD '05) of Ringgold is the as Phillips LLP. sociate vice president of academic affairs al Georgia Northwestern Tef lmical Col Public and International Affairs lege's Whitfield Murray campus. Emily W. Bartley Hildreth (DPA '79) is Robinson (AB '03, MEd '0 5 ~ c01nplctcd the clean of Ccorgia State U niversity's her F.SOL certification in Juf . She Andrew Young School of Policy Srudics. is scheduled to teach her (irs ~ class of Valerie Hepburn (PhD '06) of Bruns English language learners next school wick was named one of the four 2011 year. Bryan Till (BSEd '01 , MF.d '06) Power ~Tomcn in Georgia by Gemgirr of F~ycneville, N .C., is he;ld football 7i·cnd magnine. Hepburn has served as coach of Cape Fear High Scl~ ool. Craig president of College of Coasta I Georgia Wentworth (EdD '09) of Thomasville since 2009. received the Delta Pi Epsilon Donora) Research Award. 'vVentworrh on the Social Work award for his dissertation, "The Role Capt. PhiJjp S. McRae (MSW 'go) of Coll egiate Sports Participation in of Ft. Stewart is chief of the depart Preparing vVomen for Execu ive 1 .cader ment of behavioral medicine at Winn ship." Army Community H ospital and is the team commander of National Disaster I :m Response Mental Health 1eam number William B. Wood (RBA '70, jlviBA '75, four of the Office of Force Read iness J D '7 Y) of Grayson moved hi. practice and Deploymcm of the U.S. Public from the Atlanta fim1 of Smith, Gam brell and Russell , where he pr: cticed for 2Ryea rs, toT .awrenccville Wood specializes in business law, particularly Compton wins mergers and acquisitions and state and Mexican Open local tax matters. He has alsoten an adjtlnct professor of corporar t

SEPTEMBER 2011 • GEORGIA MAGAZ.INE 53 What is crimina

case m anager for C1lifo rnia and Hawaii of public policy issues i n volving criminal lnnocc:ncc Proj ec r..~. " H owever, I would also law, such a$ reforming senccncing laws or include l awyc: r~ who advocate on behalf eyewimess identification procedures. The

The following law schools offer a concentration and experiential training in Criminal law and procedure.

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I Back to School 2011 39 f>t'e.\o.w M~~\re CRIMINAL LAW

criminal justice system overlaps imo many ence ro stud y criminal law. an·as and al most every lawyer can have an How do you get started in impacr." What skills do Criminal Prosecurors work for the state or federal Criminal Law? governmem in enforcemenr of federal and The federal government and state gov lawyers need? stare srarutes as well as ciry ol'dinances rhat ernme.ms employ both prosecutors and "As with any other litigators, criminal define the criminal code. Cri~1inal defense defenders. defense attorneys must have good writing arrorneys may work for the fcf cral, state or "People usually get rheir srarr by work and trial advocacy skills," Chinn said. "But lorn! government or for priv· re law firms. ing or interning f(Jr t.hc public defender's more in1 portandy, pa..~sion and people skills Defense· attorneys serve thei client's best office or the dist ri..: t attorney's office," are St:l:n in the best criminal lawyers. You interest and have no reguiretlent w pres Chinn said. "Al so, many graduates can stan have to have passion w pracri <.:e criminal ent evidence or call witnesses in defense of their criminal defense practice by joining law becaust' cv<.:ryt hing you do impacts the their case since the hurden of proof is on a private fi rm or starring their own solo criminal justice system and public policy." the prosecurion. pracrice." Criminal law arrorneys need excellent com There are numerous rypes uf crimes Being a prosecutor is never boring and munic:nion skills, the abiliry w read and handled by prosecurors, criminal defense ~ery day is differenr, say many. Also, r.here analy-~.e vast quanrities of information and attorneys and public defender$, which is nothing more rewarding for 1hc se attor sophisticated negotiation skills. A certain include crimes against drug crimes, nqs than being in the courrroorn. Many amount of street smarts can be useful organized cri me, economic crimes and know at an early age they will enjoy that for both prosecutors and criminal defense public corruption. role, or arc inspired by a personal experi- attornqs.

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40 prelaw CRIMINAL LAW

'ou have to have passion to practice criminal law because everything you do ca.l program," he said. "It is the best way c~iminal systern and w learn how ro handle cases and deal with in1pacts the justice clients through a supervised, educational t. 1· 1· ,. scrring. Or instt:ad of a clinic, intern ror the puo I C. p~> l~Y· -- _!r:{r(_,'hinn. associ~uc rJin'rr.tr 1.11:r! ref•! public defender, district attorney, defense fi /dtlftgerfa!' ( td~{OI'I/Ill rlf7rf fldWr!.it fmWC/!J?(i' /'roj rn s firm or criminal court judge." He said studems should look at course cat;llogs and see how many criminal law "Pooplo sk; JJ , '" ;ml,.,.,, bo~o" <~ody ;""''"d ;o oogo>;><;oru. Tho 'YP" and eria l skills courses are available. you will meet fitcc:-to-facel with your eli- of cases handled include crimes against "Ask the admission offices for a list of ent (or in the Distri ct Arr

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Back to School 2011 41 nght mjus[lces or reverse , ohctes thar on domestic tssues, ~oc t a l ~ecurny, unem sysrems or comprehension ot the English have impacted those who g~ ~rally cannor ployment compensation and landlordlren language. Whether it is rhe fear of losing a ;tfford represenration on thctr own," said am dispurcs. home through foreclosure o r anxiety about Patience C rowder, a profcssllr and direc starring a m-w business, lawyers have £O wr of the Social Emerprise & Economic What skills do public be able to understand their diems' goals Development Law Projecc ar rhe Bo~che and the motivations behind their acrions Legal C linic at Tulsa College of Law. interest lawyers need? so that chose goals and motivations can bt· Public imeresr lawyers are identified The daily acrivities vary with che secror effectively communicated ro someone else." by che organi-,.a tions with which chc:y arc of practice with much of their rime spem A public interest anorney also needs affiliared and the issue on whif.h they work, counseling clients. patit:nct- and the ability 10 cope with a whecher it's civil righcs, 's issues, edu "Strong communicariun skills and the CriSIS. cation or prisoner issues and ability to empathize wi ch clienrs arc two "Generally, s tudt~ nrs wich a passion for

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42 prelaw PU BLIC INTEREST LAW

helping the disenfranchised ()r powerless compeuuve, and it is imporram to study a school has; a school's reputation in the 1 w1'I I enter a career Ill. pu)11 ic ·mterest Iaw, " hard and earn good grade.~." area of public inrcn.:st; the school's overall said Russell Jones, professo ~ and vice chan Jones said that several law schools pro commitment to public inreresr law and the cellor for Academic Affilirs at Southern vide summer stipends to srudenrs who are school's success in placing irs students in University L'lw Center. I inreresred in public inrerest law. public interesr jobs. How can you get srancd in public inter "These scipends allow students 10 work "Prospective law students interested in a est law? as interns in public inrerest firms or orga public interest career should speak frankly "There are scveral public imeresr law ni7..ations," he said. "The summer arrange wirh a school's admissions offices about firms, non-profit organizatibns and govern menrs give srudt•ms a better insight of their goals," Jones said. "Although this mental entities char can giv students a srart public interest job opportunities and what information is nor conclusive, rhey should in th<.~ field," Jones said. are rhe requiremcms for a public interest a.~k how long a school's pro bono proj<·cts Crowder agreed rha1 1h rt~ are a variery lawyer." and public inceresr courses and programs of unique entrance poinrs nro the profes have been established to assess the school's Sion. How to choose comminm·m ro existing courses and pro uThree effective method~ of cmry are grams and irs excitement about starting volunreering, networking and research," a law school new ones." she said. "A student who ams to repre Crowder said rhere are several rhings sent individuals in lirigatioil mauers might rhar a student can look for in a law school: What classes should you volunteer wirh the local I gal aid office. if the school has a certificate program in Volunteering does nor have o be limi1cd 10 public interest law; if rhe school's mission take in law school? providing pro bono legal s~rvice.~. Finally, statement promotes public interest aware Crowder said ir is imporranr to find a public interest law positions an: incredibly ness; the rypes o r clinical programs thal school with clinical opportunities.

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Back to School 20 11 43 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW

"I reach a transactional eli 1ic, so it is no students to intc:racr with dicmts once they The following law schools offer a con centration and experiential training in public interest law. surprist" that I strongly recon rncnd clinical begin practice, which IS vc:ry imponant Su•ool Name courses to srudenrs, particularly studt>nts because direct clienr contact occurs very imercsted in a public intereir career," she carly in rhe careers of most public interest :;' said. "In clinical courses s1udenrs apply lawyt:rs." rhe law learned in ocher ci

44 prelaw ·----· . . ·~--.... First Year Sur ivai Guide Top Schools for Moot Court • ur1 THE MAGAZINE FOR LAW STUDENTS SEPTEMBER 2011 VOL. 21, NO.1

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I Law schools are increasing clinical options in an effort to better prepare I students. Her~'s a look at the schools leading the trend. BY MICHELLE WEYENBERG

aced with a rough job Imarket and effort to try and fix that," Larry Kramer, law firms that want new associates dean at the law school cold the New York who can hit the ground ~ unning, law Times in July. schools are ramping up \:heir practi Ocher law schools already require clini #4 cal skills training - especially with clin- cal training or public service per grad ics. J · · uation requirements, like UDC David Even some of the elite Ia\\ schools are A. Clarke School of Law and the on board. Stanford Law School is cur University ofMaryland School of Law. rently considering making Ia full-time Using data from the "Official Guide clinical course a graduation reguirement. to ABA-Approvcd Law Schools" 2011 "Law firms are saying, 'Yop'rc sending and 2012 editions, The National jurist us people who arc not in a posicion to ranked law schools in order of most do anything useful for · • T his is an clinical opportunities by dividing the

2011 FT. 2011 Enroll ' positions : Yale University : 629 0 630 ._,...... , ...... , - 2 U. of Georgia 57.6% 68.7% 703 483 ' ~ _3 , . i .~: . o_f ~ist~:~ of Co~~-~ ~!a f.. ; 58.3% ' 66.0% ; 256 ; 169 Pamela Glean, assistant dean, NCCU 4 North Carolina Central 49.0% 62.7% 491 308 ~~..;"~~~~ i 5 : U. of Wisconsin ~ 47.3% : 51.3% 755 ~ 387 6 U. of Connecticut 36.7'o 59.1% 440 260 "'""..-n-<-...j.·...... ·'V?> ...... ; 40.2% 52. 5% : 734 : 385 total number of full-time clinical course : 7 i. ~: o~ .~~~~a~d , r...,.. .. 8 SMU Dedman School of Law' 32.6"/o 59.7% 549 328 positions offered into the number of full-rime students. : 9 : City University of New Yo~k I : 34.2% : 58.0% : 438 : 254 f • ,.. · -. • ... • • • • • . .. . ~ .,...,. ,,...... , ...... The top 20 programs increased the 10 U. New Hampshire 33.1% 58.0"/o 419 243 number of clinical positions-to-enroll ment from 45 percenc to 54.3 percent. : 11 _ ~ 37.5% 52.9% : 667 : 353 ~-i_l_li~":'. ~i~c-~:.1~ - ~oll_~~; -~f J ~.~...... While the average law school has around 12 U. of Minnesota 42.4% 46.5"fo 752 350 ~~...... ~co'n'l 20 percent positions ro enrollment, the ; 349 : 13 : U. of Idaho ~ 32.6% 55.0% .. ·-: 192 .. top 20 schools average 30 percent or high 14 35.5% 46.4"/o 571 265 er over the last two years, with the top 15 : Northwestern Univ. ; 38.8% : 42.2% 817 four above 50 percent. r .,., , , , • · · ..,. ~ . . . " . . ~ · .. . . . ' .. Yale Law School offers the most clini 16 U. of Hawaii 36.8% 41.4% 295 cal opportunities available per student • 17 : Florida A&M Univ. : 37.4% ; 36.7% : 458 : 168 with 630 clinical positions offered, and Jl.,l• ,...... 18 U. of New Mexico 35.0% 35.3% 351 124 a full-time student body of 629 in 201 1. ~~~-rnt.~,...... -,...,...~ Yale far exceeded all other ABA-accredired : 19 : U. of Kansas : 27.5% 40.6% : 497 : 202 • •• • • ··- '' . ''...... , >I ' ' •• _ .,,. law schools . Yale's Michael Wishnie, a clinical law professor, said it's his school's commit-

24 I THE NATIONAL J uRIST i September 2011 ment co efficient, full-rime c inical fac uhy that plays a major role i the pro grams' success, and the fact that every law student can have one or ~ore clini cal experience. It's a guaranted that most other law schools can't promise. "I think it's because the f:iculcy col lectively respect that for man students, clinical opportunities at Yale h ve been a fruitful experience," he said.

Clinics: How theory affects bractice At UDC law school, the core CU( riculum is based on the medical school model, said Katherine Brodetick, dean and professor of law. · "Every student has hand~-on legal practice experience as a com~rehensive part of rhe requirement," she faid. "We specifically recruit students who want to be public interest, public service, public policy lawyers." 1 Every first-year law stud nt must participate in a one credit law ;md social service project, which they begin two weeks before school starts. In ~heir second UDC Dean Katherine Broderick has made a commitment to hands-on and third years they can paJ~icipate in training and public service, starting students in the first year. eight clinics - including the second old est and longest running 1-IIV/~DS clinic in d1e country. The requirement is seven credits and 350 hours of clinical service during the second and third year. said. "Within law school the clinic helps ranked fourth. "We try to be responsive to "We have a terrific placement rate them find how theory affects the practice." what the interests arc of our students." because students start in theif very first Millemann said clinics are a good way Nakai Davis, assisram clinical professor year," Broderick said. "They have real to provide the kinds of services students at NCCU law, said a lot of srudenrs who references from lawyers who'vr observed will provide at a small firm. And they also have participated in a clinic fare better on their work. Instead of saying ' think' so link studenrs.to future employers. the bar exam because they are presented and so, it's 'I've observed."' To meet the demands of the market, with a practical problem that they have to Like UDC, the Univ rsity of Millemmn said they have tried to follow make an argument for. Maryland's clinical program is embodied the trends, such as international law and "It gives them the confidence to in the law school's core mission The clini the economy as far as clinical opportuni know that they can do this," Davis said. cal program is the core experiential experi ties offered. "Everyl;>ody says practical training makes ence and externships supplemqnt it, said Pamela Glean, assistant dean for them a berter lavvyer." Michael Millemann, professor of law. clinical and professional skills at North Glean said NCCU also assesses the The University of Maryland law school Carolina Central University School of value of their smdent services to the com requires studems ro take a clfical pro Law, said their law school offers 12 dif munity. In 2010-2011, NCCU law stu gram (a minimum of 13 wceksl, Students ferent clinical programs - the newest dents provided a little over $2 million in can participate in one of 27 clinics, or being the Low Income Tax Payer Clinic, free legal services. more as space allows. expected to launch this fall. "It truly is service learning," she said. "One of rhe ways in which !we define "We picked .it up because there was a "It's a very good value w everyone that ourselves is this requirement," f illemann need," she said about her school, which is involved."

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What make moo1J court champion? Moot court competitions allow schools to compete for bragging rights, and lesser known schools dominate the regional and national competitions. Here's what makes these programs great sv JACK cRITTENDEN

s a law student at c J icago-Kent at char." College of Law in ] oo7, Brian Koppen's ranking is not Koppen wanted to know how· his the only arbiter of moor court school stacked up a&ainst others success. A few years ago che when it came ro mopt court per University of Houston's formance. He knew his program Blakely Advocacy Institute was good, but how did it com starred irs Moor Court pare co Yale Law School, Uarvard Law National Championship, an School and University of Pennsylvania invitational event. To deter Law School? mine the top 16 moot court With no ranking available, Koppen programs that would be invit cook it upon himself to crJare one. He ed, it started rallying winners. gathered data on every conlperition and Ir has a more complicated point assigned points to finalists, semi-finalists system, with some competitions and winners, based on ch number of receiving more points based on reams in the competition. prestige, and programs earning The end result was char his school points for best brief and best ranked third in 2007, bl hind South speaker honors. Brian Koppen's 2010 Law School Texas College of Law an I University UC Hastings finished first in the rank Advocacy ranking of California H asting$ C liege of the ing in 20 I 0-2011, followed by Texas Tech 1. South Texas College of Law Law. Borh of those schools have contin University School of Law and George 2.. Texas Tech University ued co dominate Koppen's r1nking. South Washington University Law School. 3. UC- Hastings Texas has taken the top spTt every year, Mississippi College School of Law, which and UC Hastings has finished second, fifth won the 20 II competition championship, 4. Loyola University - Chicago and third. I finished fourth in the ranking. 5. University of Texas "The Ivy league progranp arc nor the "Looking back, I recognize rhat moot 6. University of Miami besr," said Koppen, who is how an attor court is more competitive [than when I 7. Brooklyn Law School ney in Chicago. "Ir is al most a volun was in school]," said Vicki Lowery, director 8. University of Georgia teer thing fo~ ~herr:: and thry do~'t enter of advocacy at Mississippi College School many com pennons. of Law who graduated from the school in 9. Lewis & Clark Law School Koppen said rhe better programs 1998. "It has evolved ro have more of a 10 Baylor University audition srudents, have a l ull-rime fac professional standard. I think that is very 10. Loyola - New Orleans ulty member who oversees rhc program good for the students. Ir is a competitive and engage alumni to he p coach and envt.ronm ent. " judge students. Lowery said moor court is a comperi "Any school can be c

26 i THE NArtoNAL JuRIST I September 2011 Blakely Advocacy Instit te 2010- 2011 ranking 1. UC-Hastings Texas Tech University · George Washington Univ ~ rsity

~lississippi College South Texas College of La~ ney. Duke University "Several years ago a sru Seton Hall University dent represented us in a Washington Universi ty - t. Louis for lawyers' analogy." national competition," said Lowery, who is ----~ 9. McGeorge School of Law T. Gerald Treece, director of advocacy director of advocacy at Mississippi College at South Texas, is a legend at his school School of Law. "He did well which gave 10. Stetso n University with a courtroom named after him. He him confidence. He realized that his legal 11. : University of Florida took over the program in 1977 and built education at Mississippi College prepared 12. Columbia University ir from scratch. Today, the school boasts him to be as good, if not berrer, than [stu 13. Loyola University - Chic a o more than 100 national advocacy cham dents from} anyplace else." pionships, far more than any other law Today char student is a successful William & Mary University -~~-- school. It showcases irs winners on a wall arrorney at one of the top law firms in St. Louis University that it labels the Hall of Champions. Mississippi, and now gives back by helping Florida Coastal School of Uaw Treece compares himself to a football coach current srudents. coach when looking for future moot coun Lowery said that moot court not competitors. He recruits students who only helps build confidence, it gives stu year to 25 today. excel at brief writing and legal research. dents the practical skills they need to be Most. of the top progral enrer 16 to Then his teams practice hard wich alumni successfullitigarors. 25 competitions a year. as coaches and judges. "There are nor chat many opportuni UC Hastings entered into 20 competi "If you are giving a speed1 you are miss ties for law students to serve in the attor tions last year and received h~nors in 15 of ing the point," he said. "It has tO be like a ney role," she said. "Even though moot them, an exceptionally high n~mber. discussion with your friends where you use court cases are hypothetical, it gives stu "We think of this as 'sport for lawyers,"' legal authoriry." dents an opportunity co act as an attorney said Toni Young, director i f legal writ Robert Sherwin, director of advocacy and deal with substantive, procedural and ing & research and moot ourt at UC programs at Texas Tech, said that while ethical issues." Hastings. "That means we pr crice a lor." good programs practice hard, they know At most law schools, moot court is an UC Hastings and most of the other how co have fun. extracurricular activity in which srudents high performing schools start ~ it h a strong "We provide a fun experience for our take parr in a simulated appellate court "farm system." This includes internal com students," Sherwin said. "We expect a lot proceeding. This includes both drafting a petitions and a strong legal writing pro out of our students, but we don't work brief and participating in oral arguments. 1 gram. The students that per~orm well are them to death and treat them like athletes While almost every school allows stu then invited to participate in ¢xternal com in Communist Russia. We work hard in dents to compete in internal competitions, petitions. Some schools ev<;r hold addi the weeks leading up w the competition, a smaller number aggressively prepare stu tional tryouts in order to tjeld the best and then when we travel we enjoy our dents to compere in competitions agai nst possible teams. selves. We eat at nice restaurants and enjoy other schools. Young said it is importt nt to teach the city we've traveled co." Mississippi College sends students to studenrs how to write a bri ~(: as coaches Shetwin's program has been ranked sec around 25 competitions a year. The school can't help in brief writing, which o/Pica.lly ond by Koppen's Law School Advocacy the won the Andrews Kurth National Moot counts for 25 ro 50 percent fa competi past two years and second by the Blakely Court Championship in January, and was tion's score. Advocacy institute. ranked as the fourth best program by the Once the brief is turned in, preparation Young said that students often have to Blakely Advocacy Institute for rhe 2010- becomes a team-focused activity. Faculty sacrifice their winter a~d spring breaks co 201 1 academic year. and alumni help prepare Stude ts, acting as participate, but that it is worth it. The Blakely Advocacy Institute coaches or judges. "Most say ir was the beS£ experience invites rhe top 16 moot court programs "Even if students are not successful [in rhey had in law school," she said. "And every year £O participate in the National the competition], they still en~oy the expe many are life-long friends with their team Championship. University of California rience," Young said. "This is a teamwork mares and coaches." - Hastings ranked first in irs ranking this environment - a really great way to learn Vicki Lowery has seen how moot courr year, followed by Texas Tech and George how co work- as a ream. Hen the 'sports can help develop a student into an actor- Washington University.

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t one point Martina Palano mencs by region and then factored in infla thought about practicing law in tion over me period of the study. New Yo rk or another major ciry. T he magazine did the analysis on an ABut when it came down to it, the overall basis and on a school-by-school University of Georgia School of basis. Law graduate realized her home state had Palarto's alma mater, the University of some advantages. Georgia School of Law, ranks second in "When you consider rhe cost of living, the school study. The University of 1exas I realized Atlanta is expensive, but it's not School of Law is first, and Vanderbilt like New York or Los Angeles," she said. University Law School is third. H alf of "[More rhan) 70 percent of my fellow stu the top 10 schools in the smdy are state dents stay in the state." schools wirh lower tuition, and four of the Her planning is similar to what many top 10 are not in the top 30 for median students think about when picking a law private salary. school and a place to find a job. The acmal Simply put, higher salaries do not value of a law degree depends not just on always mean more spending cash, as the the amount of salary that a J.D. from a statistics in the standard of living chart particular school may be worth in the job indicate. marker, buc also on what kind of lifestyle a Graduates of the University of Georgia la... vyer can expect based on debt payments, law school, for example, report a median taxes and the cost of living where they take private sector income of $130,000 a year a job. and average annual debt payments of about The National jurist ran those numbers $5,300 when using the most flexible repay and found that recent law school graduates ment options. When those numbers are have more disposable income than they adjusted fo r taxes and the cost of li vi ng, did 10 years ago - this despite higher stu tllis school's law grads - who mostly work dent loan debt and a worsened job market. in Atlanta and the Southeast - would Graduates employed by law firms have have $84,756 in net income. Their debt seen their standard of living improve by amount is also among the lowest reported 47 percent since 1998. That translates by schools on our list and plays a role in inro $2,000 more in disposable income the qualiry of lifestyle. a month. "Our school is one of the least expen Standard of living also improved for sive," said Paul Rollins, assistant dean for graduates headed into public service - student affai rs at rhe University of Georgia albeit by a more modest 6 percent, based law ~chool. "Our students pay $7,500 on the standard 1 0-year loan repayment tuition per semester. Many live at home plan. But when using a new income-based while going to law school lO reduce their repayment plan, graduates see their stan debt. Orhers who come here from else dard of living improve by 45 percent from where can ger in-stare tuition after a year."' 1 998 - or an extra $1 ,000 in disposable Another example of what lower debt income a month. and a moderate cost of living means in The numbers were even better before terms of net income afccr graduacion the current economic slump. comes from the University of Texas' law To determine standard of living, The school. National jurist used median starting sal The University of Texas law school aries, average debt payments, estimated reports that its graduates have a median federal and srate taxes, cost of living adjust- private sector income of $160,000, with

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$84,757 $83,988 $16,079 $96,251 $82,334 $39,680 $16,396 $94,052 $82,327 $16,276 $94,521 $82,034 $81,391 $81,949 $95,507 $81,886 $87,033 $81,058 $95,398 $80,848 $28,920 $73,558 $80,701 $35,525 $14,231 $87,861 $80,664 $88,303 $80,356 $96,178 $78,559 $35,525 $87,608 $78,374 $39,680 $96,063 $77,915 $39,680 $16,575 $95,190 $77,608 $39,680 $16,675 $96,854 $76,467 $96,152 $76,404 $95,418 $76,403 $94,787 $76,118 $16,432 $96,167 $75,653 $12,937 $79,781 $75,623 $12,837 $78,897 $75,267 $160,000 $15,942 $96,194 $74,199 $160,000 $16,866 $96,310 $73, 783 $132,750 $81,299 $73,208 $16,950 $95,636 $72,774 $16,343 $94,877 $72,686 $13,273 $75,885 $72,447 $11,217 $71,719 $71,950 $16,964 $94,609 $71,942 $11,909 $72,868 $71,332 $13,893 $81,869 $70,797 $33,075 $12,870 $80,428 $70,301 $28,920 $11,632 $75,556 $70,210 $27,715 $11,242 $69,986 $69,257 $30,125 $11,730 $75,847 $69,112 $23,400 $63,610 $68,964 $27,715 $10,359 $71,092 $68,324 $13,909 $78,909 $67,745 $14,314 $85,033 $67,416 $17,965 $92,981 $65,400 $12,231 $72,055 $65,286 $65,914 $63,281 $61,927 $63,208 $9,397 $62,558 $62,354 $10,448 $68,655 $61,883 Rutgers-Newark $16,133 $79,967 $61,013 lmJI New York University $18,023 $92,984 $59,945

30 1 THE N.A.nONAL JuRIST ! Septembe r 2011 How The National Jurist did the study

The Natrona{ Jurist use(l data fro m dif It used Federal and State tax data ferent sources to comp~te the standard from the Tax Foundation and cost of living of living fo r each school; It used Class of data from the Council fo r Com munity and 2009 indebtedness and salary information Economic Research . For both state taxes by school from U.S. News & World Report. and cost of living, The National Jurist cal It used data for overal~ salary informa culated an average for each school using tion from the National Asl)ociation for Law data from U.S. News on where graduates Placement (NALP) to compare growth over were employed. the past 10 years. It used debt repay To calculate the final standard of liv me nt data from Jeffrey Ha nson Education ing, it subtracted debt payments, federal Services, using the lowest annual plan taxes and state taxes from median P,rivate for new graduates. For about half of t he practice salary. It the n modified that num schools this was the plan. ber by t he cost of living adjustment. For the others it was a plan.

annual debe payments of about $1 1,196 rer investment than it was 10 years ago. when choosing a 1 0-year ~epaymenr option The National Jurist did a similar analysis and $5,834 when cho?sing a 2 5-year of law grads' standard of living in 1999 by repayment plan. Its graduates have a net using the private sector annual median sal income of $101,308 afcef debt, taxes and ary and subtracting loan payments, taxes cost of living adjustmentS. and regio nal living expenses. Graduates "About 70 percent of ur grads stay in w ho en tered private practice at six law · Texas right after graduation," said D avid schools at that rime had a lower standard Montoya, assistant dean for career servic of living than they did as smdenrs. es. "About a quarter of tr e class Stays in But soon thereafter, salaries began ro Austin. Cost of living, I'm sure, is one Fac grow, ourpacing student debt. The average wr 111 their decision to staf in Austin, with law firm salary increased from $60,000 probably the most signifiC

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$23,400 $60,383 $59,434 $26,180 $66,449 $59,199 $39,680 $92,736 $59,100 $22,230 $59,532 $58,339 $23,225 $58,065 $57,930 $17,680 $53,587 $56,534 $18,675 $55,270 $56,420 $27,715 $13,582 $71,305 $55,398 $86,504 $55,294 $86,545 $55,153 $60,389 $55,041 $39,680 $18,909 $92,548 $54,671 $17,956 $6,646 $49,158 $52,692 $24.570 $12,031 $63,455 $52,043 $16,575 $6,569 $48,154 $51,281 $17,680 $50,438 $49,851 $44,875 $49,701 $49,981 $49,264 $53,496 $48,976 $6,356 $43,807 $48,221 $5,287 $42,824 $47,846 $63,837 $5,172 $44,223 $47,614 $125,000 $14,688 $71,339 $46,761 S85.000 $9,091 $7,895 $49,229 $45,561 $72,500 $5,633 $6,116 $44,729 $45,497 $70,000 $4,470 $6,697 $44,133 $44,852 $100,000 $9,308 $56,952 $44,835 $42,548 $44,500 $42,659 $44,467 $41,172 $1.4,183 $42,690 $43,656 $5,292 $39,756 $43,226 $10,150 $55,274 $42,887 $10,558 $56.201 $42,557 $5,794 $38,508 $42,133 $47,827 $41,118 $39,554 $40,147 $36,748 $39.433 $36,261 $39,236 $36,289 $38,625 $5,048 $39,094 $37,782 $5,156 $33,656 $37,243 $36,943 $36,562 $34,174 $36,379 $42,058 $36,205 $34,741 $36,070 $33,264 $35,754 $32,647 $3 5,428 $34,204 $35,351 $34,199 $35,079

32 l THE NAnONAL JURJST ! September 2011 As a result, graduates 'i orklng for law NALP data shows 25 percent of the law firms between nvo and 10 attorneys have graduates in 2009 made the peak repon seen a 26 percenc improv menr in tht:ir ed median salary of $160,000. Salaries of The good news about debt standard of living, primarily because of $40,000 to $65,000 account for 34 per repayment options more lenient debt repayment options. cent of salaries. The mean salary for gradu The study shows d1at law school loans can Using the same debt repa)lmem terms as ates, adjusted for unreported salaries, was make a huge difference in a law school available in 1998, the sra1 dard of living $85,198, NALP reported. graduate's future standard of living. That has decreased by 9 percent. Many schools said there is some soft fact should be obvious to everyone, but Mid-sized law firms have also seen a ness in the figures rhat they report due school officials say that many students decline in salaries over the pasr two years. ro the fact thar some students don't tell often don't face up to that reality until they Bur rheir salaries, after adj seed for infla their schools about cheir income at all. The scan making debt payments. tion, are also still higher th n what recent National Jurist excluded law schools from "I do think the cost of living goes up graduates earned in 1998. the final ranking in which less than 40 per for students who graduate with debt and It was growth in salar at the largest cem of rheir graduates' salary was known. who go into the private sector," Olan said. firms that fueled most ot the improve The school-by-school comparison "In the private seccor, .you can't seek debt menc to standard of liv· Umil 2010, focuses only on students who take jobs forgiveness. It can be a constanr battle to in rhe private sector. Public service jobs make it all work." Buc a Federal law that cook effect in July 2009 has made debt repayment much easier fo r law school graduates. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act now gives graduates five repayment options instead of one. In the past, borrow~ ers would have been forced to repay their federal loans on a 10-year plan - resulting in yearly paymenrs of almost $15,000 on a $100,000 debt load. Now students can choose a 25-year repaymenr pbn that would bring annual payments on $1 00,000 down LO $8,859 or a graduated plan on a I 0- or 25-year repayment schedule that would lower the payments LO less than $7,500 for the first few years of repayment. (Payments wo uld be higher in later years.) The fifrh option - an income-based repayment- is the best for more than half . Recent graduates from the University of Texas School of Law who enter private of law students, according to JdT llanson, . I practice earn the most ar er debt and taxes - $100,686 a year. a sLUdenr loan consul cam. "The College Cost and Reduction Act rhe biggest firms increaJed dramati- haven't c;xperienced the same increases significanrly hdped all students more eas cally, and the salaries at those firms like- that private sector jobs have in the past 10 ily manage and afford the repa} ment of wise increased from $90,f 00 in 1998 years, according to Maris Abbene, assistant their federal student loan," H::mson said. to $160,000. dean for career services at Bosron College "Jr added a paymem plan that more closely "With the economic dor nrurn, there School of Law. But there still has been a 5 aligns payment with income." has been some downward pr<\ssure on large percent improvement in standard of living Recent graduates who can show they firm starting salaries, but most of the Am for graduates who enter public service, and meer a "parcial financial hardship' standard Law 200 firms have held at $160,000," that figure is much higher - 45 percent are eligible for rhe plan. Hanson said that, Monroya said. - when the most lenient debe repayment as a general rule, graduates are eligible if But how many gradua cs really gee option is used. their debt exceeds their annual income. chose sky-high s

September 2011 1 THE NATJONAlJURJST 33 Law School Yearly Federal Taxes . $34,986 •$34,976 $34,433 $31.143 $33,687 $34,138 $33,478 $33,440 $33,330 $33,398 $38,496 $33,31 1 $31,672 $33,284 $32,536 $33,150 $33,141 $32,696 $8,640 $4,231 $30,077 $32,385 $12,450 $6,355 $37,751 $32,147 $9,000 $4,851 $31,674 $32,143 $11,450 $33,822 $31,788 $12,000 $35,384 $31,469 $40,192 $31,463 $39,821 $31,316 $28,879 $30,432 $31,135 $29,367 $31,870 $29,334 $29,770 $29,271 $37,893 $29,102 $33,498 $28,954 $28,435 $6,552 $12,000 $27,436 $8,640 $29,501 $25,183 $9,000 $30,687 $23,836 $34,299 $21,972 $26,609 $21,191 the lowest annual loan repflyment option Where you live after gradua· is predominantly technology driven, and for each school. T his resulted in a range tion cari make a difference that's one sector in the current cconomr from $1,384 a year to $10,127. That is that's doing well," said Vicki Huebner, fa r lower than average de~ t payments in T he National Jurist used data from the assistant dean of law career sen ices :n 1998- when they ranged from $1,872 ACCRA cost of living index and used Sr. Santa Clara Law, located in tbc heart of co $15,000 or $2,452 to l$ 19,649 after Lou is, Mo., as rhe standard for the study. Northern California's Silicon Vallq, one of adjusted for inflation. l It shows that New York City is 239 percent the most costly areas in the nation. "The Of course, even though monthly pay more expensive.. demand for lawyers goes along wnh char."' ments can be less in the first few years, That means rhar your $160,000 sal Many of the school's law gr,tduares graduates who enter privatb practice will ary in New York City will huy you the work in the intellectual property arena in still have to pay off the full) amount. And same standard of living - housing, food, patent prosecution and litigation, in bio the lower the payments in the early years, transportation and enterrainmenr - as a technology, in mergers and acqUisitions the more the graduate will h ve t o pay over $67,000 salary in St. Louis. Of course, if and protection of trade secretS. Jr's premi the long haul. both the New Yorker and the Missourian um work chat pays premium salaries. "You n eed to undersradd how much can live on just 80 percent of their salary, "So if yo u're interested in a certain you owe, when will you havd to repay, how the New Yorker will have more money ro industry, it makes sense to move to a par m uch will you have to pay, ~ nd then plan put towards savings. ticular area where you can get into that for contingency," Hanson saJd. "More and Also, schools in more expensive areas field," Huebner said. more schools are having m come in co like New York, WashingtOn, D.C ., and But as Martina Palarro found our when talk to their srudenrs about their options. California offer job opporrunities that she graduated from University of Georgia, It has relieved a lor of anxielly [a mong the aren't available anywhere else in the coun she can live far better off in Atlanra as a students]." try. health care lawyer rhan in New Yo rk. "It just so happens that [Silicon Valley] jack Crittenden contribuwl..to this report

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ATHENS, Ga. - The.! Universit; or Georgia School of La\\ is launching a IlC\\ program that aliO\\S about 15 students to live and -.,vork in Washington. D.C. for a semester while earning course credit.

Law Dean Rebecca ~anncr White says the program will launch this spring and will be run by Jessica Heywood, a 1997 graduate of the Jaw school. Participants will live thousing maintained by UGA and work about 35 hours each week at legal positions with govern ent agencies or major national organizations. Students will also complete a course taught by a pr fessor from a local law school and a clinic seminar class.

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"The Washington D.C . Semeste r i n P. · c ice _p.t:.OqTom is an exciting new opportunity for ur students_t.o_.b.a.ll€:--qrn:t:u1 l - tirn e clinical experience whi l e in law school , " sai e a Hanner White . "Importantly, they will gain that c l i nic ati n's capitol , p rovi ding our students with a distincti ey c uld gain nowhere e l se."

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"States are certainly capable of co · ng up wit.h innovative, successful allemalives to the current federal requirements lor providing health care to low-inc me individuals." she says. "Block grant waivers are certainly a realistic possibility."

Ms. Leonard notes that President bama votcod support for state waivers in a speech to the National Governors Association this spring, and also fo fast- tracking the limeframe for granting waiveu as provided in the Alford able Care IV:.t (ACA), from 2014 to 2011 .

"So far. the Obama admnisttation seems quito Wtfting to entertain state e.xperimenls with various aspects of federal health reform iiJlllementation, inelud1ng Medicaid e.xpansion." says Ms. leonard. Pharmacy News Index Med1ca1d is ·a political hot potato tl)al no one soems particularly anxious to hold onto." says Ms. Leonard. "f states can figure it out. while meeting the minimum level of benefits and coverage e.xpansionthat ACA envisions. I e.xpect j Qrng_ Qehvery Systems the administration to be very agreeable.· Dnlgs\Q!'Jls Matthew Mitchell, PhD. a research fellow at me Mercatus Center at George Mason Umversity in Minglon, \A. says IFDA .fliJ.al Approvals it helps that block granting has bee erroracod by people all over the ideological spectrum. "ll's nol just something Front f.'ag~althcare News that Republicans or conservatives r free market people are talking about." he says. "Some people think that the I Q!m~[c Drugs administration might even be will in to grant a good number of these waivers. They really don1 want to set up fight a Hospilai iO!I\ISJt:y with the states over this." Internet Pharn)l!l;)l However, the administration may unwilhng to give ground when it comes to additional flexibility on eligibility I tT in Heal!hcare requirements, adds Or. Mitchell. -r at may be a big sticking point that will make administration less likely to wOfk with I ~edicare & Medicaid stales on offering block grants," he1 says. "A hell mark of the ACA is trying to get more people into Medicaid. That is how mey wil achieve their goal of getting more people covered." Qver:_the-Coumer:. Drugs !'harm !I!Q!Jslry T ce~~ and Policy Fewer strings attached Phanmceutical Deve!Ppment ~ slates can receive block grants with relallvefy fewer federal strings attached. says Ms. Leonard, they may be able l_!' h~~llcallndustry __ 10 support successful alternative leis of government health care programs.

Stales have a mxed record of su sses and failures with e.xperimentalion with Medicatd. notes Ms. Leonard, LIVE ONLINE CE including Oregon's "rationing" plan ir 1993, Tennessee's "TennCare" Medicaid managed care plan beginning in 1994, the Massachusetts COIJllrehr sive health reform plan in 2006. and Vermont's single-payer plan in 2011. Sep 1 1: [nlroducliO!'Jq.JiiV and Anlirefr<>l!i@l Drugs

Oregon's plan to provide minill'AJm dasic health coverage to all tow-income adults met with pollllcal challenges, adds Sop 13: Pharma~Y .~liW.. !¥.19 !'.Jtlj<;s; !\flcienl Time~J!?. Ms. Leonard. while TennCare met vjith finooclal and administrative challenges. Conscience Cia~!.!!

"But those were bold. controversial L.xpenments, altering many basic prenises of Medicaid," she says. "More modest Sep 14: Y.l.!:f.t!Oof \Aces: Caffein e ,P.-:I.~.~ol and e.xpelimenls at the state level have l>een successful to varying degrees." {;l]_ocolate States have a long history of adninistenng public benefits program;, adds Ms. leonard, and their on-the-ground e.xpertise could certainly pay off if gillen the chance. In fact. states may have a different. and perhaps better, sense of which people need care the most and the most efficient way to get care to those people. she says. COIJllared to the federal government Sop 18: ~ed icallon ErrO

Removing the additional federal o ~ ay of regulations may ease the administrative burden of running a successful state Medicaid program. says Ms. l onard. "Increasingly, states are concerned that federal dollars tail to provide adequate funding, and that the lode al requirements ate too onerous," she says.

Federal Medicaid authorities have en fair1y generous in granting waivers to all or parts of stale Medicaid programs. she odds. "This notion of states as · boratories of democracy.' conducting policy e.xperimenls that may be adopted by other states or the federal gove ment. has long beeo recognized as a value of our federal system." says M s. Leonard

However. Ms. Leonard notes thjlt rdmbursement levels for Medicaid proVIders have hisloncalty been so low COIJllared to comme.-ciaf insurance f,atil1s eldremely hard to recruit and retain enough phySICians wiling to see Medicatd patients.

"Even if states figure out hoW to run Medicaid more efficiently than the federal government. they still face the challenge of how to incenlivize docl~ to see Medicaid-eligible patienis.• she says.

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There are no cutTen! demoostrati()!ls Involving cost sharing for patients. or giving patients greater ability to shop around lor different providers. or a. owing care to be obtained across stale lines, notes Or. Mitchell.

'VVe doo1 really know what the results would be. because we have never let those experiments run: he says. ·~·s still probably a better bet than 'one size fils all."'

One potenlial lesson for states, s ~s Dr. Milchetl. Involves Tennessee's expansion of Medicaid with its TennCare program, which was later audited ~Y a oonsulling group. "They said it would bankrupt the state. so they had to dramatically draw back eligibility." 1e says. ·overnight, 200,000 people were dropped from the Medicaid rolls."

K a state has to suddenly cut back pligibilily that was expanded , as occurred in this case. says Dr. Mitchell. ''It can be more painful than if you had never Fxpandod eligibility in the first place."

On the other hand. states are laking note of the encourag1ng results of the Cash & Counseling program. adds Dr. MitChell. and are waiting to see the response to requests for waivers by states suCh as Utah and washington.

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Or. Mitchell argues that the federal government's approach in taking reductions in eligibility oft tho table is short· sighted. 'VVhy would you allow Mzpna to stop covering transplants. but Arizona is not allowed to reduce eligibility for those recipients with relatively higl]er means of either wealth or income?" he asks. Free Membership

Instead of denying coverage allog~other. says Dr. Mitchell, transplants could have been covered on a sliding scale !;lick Here to register to Win an iPod nano. with higher copays for some Medi 'd recipients. "That, to me, seems like a reasonable tradeoff," he says. "II seems Rule$ Md Reuu i~ I)C)nt tha1the federal government is only looking at ooe dimension, which is eligibility." EiijoyFi·oo Cr. Dl'\!a Search. io.!I!JS\IY J1e~sletters and more... Requests 1hatlnclude some form o cost sharing among recipients are more in line w~h UH! approach outlined in the !>CA. adds Dr. Mitchell. "If you can ot reopients to share even a little bit, oven if it's a $10 copay, that encourages Nursing Jobs them to shop around." he says. "II iptroduces some measure of price sensitivity and competition: Ate you a nurse lOOking for a job? Contact Ms. Leonard at (706) 542-4309 orweeks/[email protected] Dr. Mitchell at (703) 993-8940 ormmitche3@9f'IU.edu. Check out the til!DlnaJob Sour~.

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Law Dean Rebecca Hanner White says the program will launch this spring and will be run by Jessica Heywood, a 1997 graduate of the law school. Participants will live i ~ housing maintained by UGA and work about 35 hours each week at legal positions with government agencies or major national organizations. Students will also complete a course taught by a p ofessor from a local law school and a clinic seminar class.

White said the progr~m will provide students with a "distinctive legal experience they could gain nowhere else."

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Friday, September 02, 2011 Grand jury's impartiality questioned Attorneys for forme'1 CEO: Panel included.four Cobb EMC members who would be alleged victims in racketeering case By Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Stafi Reporter

For the second time ljhis year, lawyers for the former top executive of Cobb EMC have claimed a problem with the ind{ctment of their client for racketeering renders the document void.

'lbe argument worked last time, when a judge tossed the charges because they had been read in the new Cobb County s Jperior Courthouse the week before the building o11icially opened to the public. The law requires graJd jury presentments be read in open court.

This time, lawyers for former CEO Dwight Brown assert in a 25-page motion that their client was indicted by a grand jury that included four EMC members who, according to the state's case against him, would be his all ged victims and therefore could not be impartial.

All customers of an EMC, or electric membership corporation, are shareholders. Cobb EMC is the largest of the 42 in Georgia and has 196,000 residential customers, according to its website. Those customers are spread across tive metro Atlanta counties and four southwest Georgia counties. But not all of Cobb's resident are Cobb EMC customers.

The motion, filed Aug. 26, seeks to "abate, dismiss and quash the indictment on grounds the state. with actual knowledge and premeditation, improperly sought to deprive this defendant of his constitutional right to!an impartial grand jury by using disqualified grand jurors in order to ensure the return of the indictment against Mr. Brown."

Brown was first indicted in January on 31 counts of racketeering and theft for his actions as CEO of the nonprofit electric41 membership corporation and its for-profit subsidiaries.

Led by former Gov. doy E. Barnes, Brown's legal team filed a motion in abatement to dismiss the indictment because it was returned in the new Cobb County Superior Courthouse the week before it officially opened to t e public. Cobb County Superior Court Chief Judge Robert E. Flournoy III

granted that motion 1· March, agreeing that the indictment was not returned in an open court as required by law.

District Attorney Patrick H. I lead appealed Flournoy's order granting the motion in abatement, saying the judge's findings 011what determined a court to be open could affect hundreds of other cases

Then in July, Head antl Assistant District Attorney John C. Butters secured a new indictment of Brown. The second indictment added four new counts of intimidating witnesses to the 31 previous counts of racketeerin '.

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Under the law, two dismissals of an indictment on the same subject matter would equal a bar to further prosecution against a particular defendant for a particular crime. If Flournoy's order stands on appeal and the new i ~dictment is tossed, Brown could theoretically be free of these charges. The second motion tl abate takes aim at Head and Butters, who have declined on comment on the case in keeping with r ead's usual policy.

"There is no question that the state acted unlawfully. The only question is what should be the consequences of this behavior. This case involves the return of a true bill by a grand jury consisting partly of several alleged 'victims' of Mr. Brown," the motion states.

Brown's lawyers challenged the grand jury pool, seeking to disqualify EMC members ahead of the new indictment. Ther filed an affidavit from Linda Dobbs, director of member services for Cobb EMC, identifying gra d jurors who were EMC members. The 25 grand jurors initially included five Cobb EMC members but only four served, according to court records.

"The gravamen of the indictment is a 'conspiracy' by Mr. Brown to enrich himself by stealing property allegedly belonging to members of Cobb EMC," the motion states. "The introduction to the indictment alleges Mr. Brown's actions led to the supposed 'theft' of 'millions of dollars from Cobb EMC' and the 'theft' of 'millions of dollars in patronage capital' from Cobb EMC's members."

The motion cites stat and federal case law and constitutional law in support of the notion that due process depends upo I a grand jury with no ties to the defendant.

The motion alleges the state's decision to "use disqualified jurors to ensure an indictment" was "premeditated," "willful" and "egregious."

The conclusion of the motion says the "General Assembly has an established rule regarding what persons are sufficiently fair-minded and impartial to constitute a lawful grand jury. Having passed such a law, due procr:s cannot exist if courts tolerate a prosecutor who, with knowledge and premeditation, violat s that law."

The motion says the uly indictment "flagrantly thumbs its nose at the laws of this state." It adds, "The court should not tolerpte such lawlessness by government agents whose supposed duty is to enforce, not violate, the law."

Brown's legal team, listed on the motion, includes: Barnes and two others from his firm, John F. Salter and J. Cameron Tribble; and three attorneys from Gillen, Withers & Lake, Craig A. Gillen, Thomas A. Withers and Anthony C. Lake.

It's not surprising that a white-collar defendant of Brown's stature is "able to summon top grade legal counsel" to mount "i~teresting challenges," said professor Ronald L. Carlson of the University of Georgia School of Lav•. But one recently passed law in Georgia may ultimately weaken the Barnes' team's argument.

Carlson noted that in 2009, the Georgia General Assembly passed a statute that makes EMC members "competent" to serve as trial jurors in some cases involving an EMC corporation as a party, Carlson said. He cited O.C.G. . § 15- t 2-t 37 .1. While that statute relates to trial juries, not grand juries, it still might come up in the 1earing that will likely result from the latest motion to abate, he said.

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Governments ent is president of Phil Kent Consulting, Inc., a public relations and media Gwinnett c mpany based in Atlanta. He is the national spokesman of Americans for Delegation I migration Control and a panelist on the public affairs program, "The Letters eorgia Gang." Kent also serves as CEO of the American Seniors Museums sociation. He is the former president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation d the former press secretary to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond. He also eviously worked as an editorial page editor and columnist for The Augusta Performances [ hronicle. Kent served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He 1 Rezoning a~d his wife, Bonnie, reside in Sandy Springs. They have one son and are Sailing members of St. Hilda's Anglican Catholic Church.

Sports S awn Hanley Travel 1- an ley is a former U.S. Marine who served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary t ~· President George W. Bush. He served in Iraq as a political officer with the UPCCA I tcrnational Republican Institute and ta. ught Democracy Building courses at B 1ghdad University in 2005 and 2006. Hanley returned from Iraq and b! camc chairman of the Fulton County Republican Party. A member of the Georgia Veterans Service Board, Hanley runs his own Procurement Cpnsulting firm. He and his wife, Tracy, live in Roswell with their three cr dren.

Ben Vinson Vjnson is an attorney in the Atlanta office of McKenna Long & Aldridge I+ P· where he focuses on political law and state government affairs issues. Pt or to joining the finn, Vinson served as Majority Caucus Counsel in the Gp orgia House of Representatives. lie received his law degree from the U iversity of Georgia School.of Law and his bachelor's degree in Political

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Science from Furman University. Following law school, Vinson clerked for J dge W. Brevard Hand of the United States District Court.

t. Gov. Cagle appointees:

oyd Austin 1 ust in has served as the mayor of Dallas since 1995. In addition to serving as Jayor, he is currently chairman ofthe Metropolitan North Georgia Water ~~ ~anning District and of the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission ~egional Planning Committee. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he is t ~ e property manager for Senior Communities Management, Inc. and a deacon at the First Baptist Church of Dallas.

J ike Yeager Y!eager is currently serving his fifth term as sheriff of Coweta County. He p eviously served with the Newnan Police Department, the Georgia Department of Corrections and the Sheriff's Office of Criminal lt vestigations. He is the past president of the Newnan Kiwanis Club and past d( cctor of the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife, ~everly, live in Moreland with their two children and are members of J oreland United Methodist Church.

~eaker Ralston appointees:

Roberf F. Mumford umford is an attorney with the firm Mumford and Myers. He served in the eor61]a House of Representatives from 2005 to 2009. Mumford is a member o the Georgia Criminal Defense Lawyers and the State Bar of Georgia. He is a so a member of the Rockdale County Historical Society. Mumford holds a ~btlchelor's degree and a law degree from the University of Georgia. He and his wife, Bette Jo, have one child and reside in Conyers.

T rry R. Clark Qlark currently serves as a member of the Colquitt County Commission, to 1 hich he was elected in 2006. He is a member of the Lower Flint Ochlocknee Water Council and the Board of Directors of Tifton Quality P~anuts. Clark is a graduate of Abraham Baldwin College and was selected ai_ a 20 I 0 Master Farmer by the ABAC Alumni Association. He and his wife, Diana, have one child. They live in Moultrie.

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At lanta : Georg a Municipal Associa t ion, The State of Georgi a has issued t he following press r l ease:

Da l las Mayor B yd Austi n is one o f three local official s appointedto Georgia's I ~ n igra ion En forcement Review Board. In a ddi t ion to Austi n, Colquitt County Commission r Terry Clark and Coweta County Sheriff Mi ke Ye age r wi l l also serve on the boar

Gov . Nathan De 1 , Lt . Gov . Casey Cagle a nd Speaker Davi d Ra l ston announced t h e i r appoint ees ·o t he Immig r a tion Enfor ceme nt Review Boardon Friday, September 2, 2011. The boar consists of three appoi nteesby Deal , two appointees by Cagle and t wo by Ra lsto

Created under B 87 , the panel wi ll review and investigat e complaints rela ted t o i llega l i mmi g r r t i on and it wil l hold t he a u t hority to sanction t hose found to have v i olate d Geo g i a ' s i mmigrat ion law.

Gov. De a l appo ntees:

Phi l Ken t

Kent i s p resi d n L o f Phil Kent Consul t i ng, I nc ., a p ub l ic relations and media company based in t l anta. He i s the national spokesman ofAmericans for Immi g r ation Contr 1 and a p anelist on t he publi c aff a i r·s p r ogra m, " The Georgia Gang." Kent a l so ·er ves as CEO of the funerican Seniors Associati on . He is t he forme r president f t he Sout heas t e r n Legal Foundat i on and t he former p r ess secretar y t o t he } a t e Sen . Strom Thurmond. He a lso p revi ously wo r ked as an edito r ial p age e d tor and col umnist for The August a Chronicle. Kent served as a second l ieutenant in t he Unit ed Stat es Army. He and his wife, Bonnie, reside in Sandy Spr ings . Thy have one son a nd are memb e r s of St. Hilda ' s Anglican Catholi c Church .

Sha wn Hanl ey

Hanl ey is a former U.S. Ma r ine who served as a Deputy Assi sta n t Secretary to President George ~1 • Bush . He s e rve d i n Iraq as a polit i calof f i c e r with t he I nternati onal Re p b lj c a n I nstitu t e and t augh l Democ racy Bu ild i ng cou r ses at Baghdad Universit in 200 5 and 2006 . Hanley r eturned f rom Iraq and b e came chairman o f t he Ff l ton Count y Re publ i c a n Pa rty . A me mbe r of t he Georgi a Ve t e rans Service Boa r d, Ha ~ l ey runs hi s own Pr ocureme nt Consul t .i.ng f irm . He a nd h.is wife , Tracy, live i n Ro well with t heir three children.

Ber Vinson

Vinson is an a torncy i n t he At l a nta o f f i ce o f McKenna Long & Aldri dge LL P, where he focuses n political l aw and st ate gove rnment af fairs issues. Prior to j o ining the firm, Vinson ser ved as Ma j o r·i t y Caucus Counsel in the Georgia House of Representative . He re:e1ved nis law degree trom Lne Un vcrsity of Georgia

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S.chool of Law a nd his bachel or ' s degree in Political Sci ence from Furman University. Follo ing l aw s c hool, Vinson c l e rked for J ud ge W. Brevard Hand of the Unite d Stat es District Court .

Lt . Gov . Cagle appointees :

Boyd Aust in

Aust in has ser e d as the mayor of Dallas since 1995 . I n a d d i tion t o ser v i ng as mayo r , he is c rrentl y cha irman of the Me tropolit an No rth Georgi a Wa t er Planni ng Distric t and of t he No rthwes t Georgi a Regional Commi ssion Re g iona l Planni ng Commit te . A grad uat e o f the University

of Georgia, he i s the property ma na ger f or Seni or Conununities Management, Inc. and a d eacon a t the Fir st Baptist Church o f Da l las .

Mi ke Ye age r

Yeager is curr •ntly servi ng his f i fth term as she rif f o f Coweta Count y . He previousl y served with the Newna n Police Department, the Georgia Department of Correct ions a nd t e Sheri f f ' s Offi c e of Cri mi nal I nvesti g a t ions . He is the past president of the ewnan Ki wanis Club and past d i rector of t he Newnan- Cowe t a Chamb er· of Commer,e . lie and his wi f e, Beverly, l i ve in Moreland with t heir two chil d r en and a r e embers of Mo rel a nd Uni t e d Methodist Church .

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Robert F . Mum~crd Mumf ord i s an ~ ttorn e y wi t h t he firm Mumford a nd Myers . He served ln the Ge orgia House o f l epre s entatives from 2005 t o 2009 . Mumford )sa me mber o f t he Georgi a Crimi nal efense Lawyers and the Sta te Ba r of Georgi a. He is a l so a member of t he Ro G. d al e County Hi storical Soci ety . Mumf ord hol ds a bachelor 's degree and a l a w cgrcc r r<5h'f -the Uni versi L y of Georgia . He and his wife, Bette Jo, have one chil a n d r eside in eonyers .

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Cl a rk current ! .serves as a member of t he Colq uit t County Commission, to which h e wa s e lec ed i n 2006 . He is a member of the Lowe r Fli nt Ochlocknee Wa t e r Counci l and the 8 a rd o f Di rec tors of Ti fton Qual i t y Peanuts. Cl ark i s a gradua te of Abrah m Ba l d win Coll ege a nd wa s s e l e c ted as a 2010 Mas t er Farmer by the ABAC Alumni A soci a tion . He andh i s w:ife, Diana, ha ve one child. 'l'hey live in Moul t rie .

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Mr. Hammond pr~ ud ly Lraced his ances Lr·y to Mark llammond, who migrated from England t o Lhe Ea tern Shore of Virginia in 1634 . Mark ' s son , Edward Hammond, immigrated to Que onco in Somerset (now Worces ter) County in 1 677. In 1832 , 81 izabeth Victor .an~ond , widow of Mark ' s grea t - grandson, moved to Burle y Manor in Berlin.

Mr . Hammond wa , however, bor n i n Atlanla, d u r ing World War I I . His father , an att orney with he Justice Department , feared t he Germans would bomb Washi ngt on, where t he family then l ived, so h e senL his wife, Grace, t o her parents, Judge and Mrs. Arthur Gray Powell of Atlanta . Fo r that reason, Mr . Hammond was born ~ n what later b e came right c enter field of Atlanta Stadium, then the location of the maternity wing of Piedmont Hospital . He joined his sister, Ann .

The fami l y liv ~ d in Spring Valley, Washington, until 1945, when Lhcy moved home to Burley Ma Jor . Mr . !Iammond a l ways insisted on the proper spell j ng o f "Bu rley" as oppos d to " Burleigh. "

Mr . Hammond spent a happy childhood jn Berli n filled with activities such as Scouting, days on his father 's sailboaL, Curlew and attending St. Paul ' s Sunday school . In 1955, h e matriculated at St . Andrew ' s School in Middletown, De l ., from which he gral ua ted in 1960, by his account wiLh little academic disLinct ion . Whil aL St . Andrew's he was an undefeaLed wrestler, winning silver and b ronze medals i n the slat e wrestling Loun 1ament . lie was also selected t o play in Lhe Blue- o l d All-Star footbal l game; however, he decl ined the offer in deference and pre erence to his dedication Lo his summer job of being a beach boy in Ocean City .

Having fritter ~ d away his academic career a t St . Andrew 's, he was faced with going t o , what he was told, was a less competitive college , the University of Georg ia. After h i arrival in Athens in the fal l o f 1960 , he f ound tha t what he had heard about t ~ e University of Georgia was in fact t r u e . He also f ound the Kappa Alpha Order ~ of which he became an ard ent brother, a nd of which he served as athletic chairman .

His academic e f forts at Georgia were much akin to those at St . Andrew 's until his junior year, 1t which time h e real ized that he had bett e r do someLhing, so he mad~ t he dean ' ~ l ist and took t h e law schoo l exam . He did extremely wel l and was udmilt<": I <' lhc IJr, v••r..,J y or t;:icw_qJ L<:!W ~r: l1··o after three years o f college. After ~ , first year o f l a w school , he ma rried his c o l lege sweet heart,

Page Smoot, and made Lhc decision to reLurn to Berlin . J.f :r· r .. . r.j je':lt I r

':- .1r.s:err•: '(> ·.• r .. • 1 ~·1,...,....)' 1 ..,ow ~CI 1v.d in Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1966 . He workea for the law firm of Marcus J . Williams and Joanne B. Johnson before entering Lhe Army and serving Lhe t1vo year commilment that he acqui r ed by accep ing an ROTC comm.ission in the Medical Service Corps .

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Wh i l e on a c t ijle duty in the Army , he served as c ompany commander of the pati ents at Broo e General Hospital in San Antonio commandi ng approximately 1,800 men . He lo e d to r ecount some of t he interesting things t hat happened to him during that dark time al the heighL of the Vietnam War .

After being d ~ scha rg ed from the Army, he rejoined Mr. Williams and Joanne J ohnson and tal k d t h e m into hiring h is childhood friend , Joe Moore, who was get ting out o f 1 w school (It didn ' t take much talking). He then commenced to practice law, fl st in Berlin, then in 1972, in Ocean City . He was always with Mr . Williams' firm, which later became Williams, Hammond, Moore, Shockley & Harrison, LLP, t~e largest law firm on Lhe Eastern Shore . He prac t iced l aw for 32 years and lik d t o say that he did eve r ything from adoptions to zoning . He d i d, h owever, e s h e w the courtroom, and l i ked to tease his more l itigious colleagues by sa ing t hat if t hey went to c ourt, i t was because they lacked the ability to work aut a compromise or prepare documents.

He served as part- time Worcester County Attorney f r om 1974 -2002 , at wh i ch time he retired ~ rom the law firm and became full- t i me county a t torney . In h is t enure, he help e ~ bring Lhe county into the 21st cent u ry . He and h is c l ose friend , the count..y administrator, the late John A. Ya n kus, wrot e the first Code o f Public Local ~aw s for Worcester County . He had a particular interest in zoni ng and s ome of his ideas, such as limiting the number of divisions of land i n agricult ural zones were hailed as landmark regulations and adopted in jurisdictions a crloss the stnte . He often said that he onl y r e g r et t e d that he was unable to use his influence to keep the county rura l and maintain its t rue beauty . 1

He worked t ire~ essly f or t he improvement of the t own of Berlin , and was a founding trustee n the Rerlin Heri tage Foundation . He spearheaded the restoration o f Lh' Calvin B. Ta y l or House . It was by his urging, t h rough h is personal eff orts p nd h is [jnancial support , combined with that of many o t hers , that the museum is what it is today .

He was bapt i ze[ at St. Paul ' s Church in Berlin f rom wh ence he will be buried in his family plo with his par ents , grandparents and great gra ndparents . He was confirmed at St . aul 's and rema i ned a communicant there unt il h is death . He was superintendent of a very successful Sunday school program at St . Paul ' s for 21 years .

He spent much t ime, effort a nd money wlth partners in restor ing buil d ings in downtown Ber l i n i eludi ng the Odd f ellows Buil d ing, the Ayres Building , t he Conway Building, he Eag le Hote l and his crowning achi evement, the Atlantic Hotel . He lab ored long a nd hard over his home place, Burley Manor , but unfortunately deat h Look him bef o r e he could finish .

Despite h a ving l a lackluste r academic record at St. And rew' s , h e was first elected by t he AJ ¥mni a s a Trustee of t he s chool and later e lec ted to the Board o f Trustees. He s~rve d as a trustee of the school for 13 years, including pos itions as chai r man of the Trusteeship commi ttee, co- chairman of the De velopment Commifee, member of the Building Committee, Land Use Commit tee and several ad-hoc co ittees .

All three of h s chi l dren attended St . Andrew ' s School and he very o ften said, " I would spend my last d i me to send them there." He loved t he school l ike h e loved his church . He often said whateve r he was h e owed A. Felix duPont for endowing St . Andr and making it possible for him to go there.

ln addit i on to h is o t her c ivic activi t ies, he serve d as president o f t h e Furnacetown found tion , t rustee of Salisbury SchooJ , a member of t he Governor ' s Commission to Revise the Annotated Code o f Maryland, Chairman of the Berlin Board of Zoning Appeals and Chairman of Berlin Planning Commission.

In a dd i t ion to his wife nnd dearest fri end wi t h whom he shared 18 wonderful

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years, Elizabeth Lynch !Iammond, he is survived by his son, Edward H. Hammond III; and daugh t~ J- in - law , Susana Pimiento Chamorro of Austjn, Texas; and granddaughter., e l i a Maria Hammond; a daughter, Eliztlbeth Powell Hammond Py le ; a son-in-law, Ru sell To wn send Pyle; and g ran d sons , Charles Me Alpin Pyl e , Edward Hammond P le, Thomas Hammond Pyle, Duncan Jepson Pyle of Chestnut Hill, Mass.; a daughte, Sarah Page Han~ond; son- in- l aw, Aaron Taverniti Kechley; granddaughter, Elizabeth Jane Hammond Kcchley; his friend and former wife, Page Smoot Hammond of SaJ.isbury; and very spe cial cousi n , Elizabe th Powell of Athens .

Mr. Hammond w ~o t e h is own obituary .

A servjcc for t he burial of the dead wi l l be held at St . Paul ' s Episcopal Church, Church Street, Berlin, on Sunday at 2 p . m., with burial to follow in the family plot in the churchyard .

In lieu of flowers, the fami ly asks that donations be made to Saint Paul ' s Church Endowment ~ Fund and the Ca lvin B . Taylor House Museum.

Ar r a ngement a 4e i n the care of Burbage Fu neral Home Ln Be r lin .

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Gov. Nathan Deal today tapped five new members who will join the Georgia Public Defender S} anda rds Council . The Georg i a Public Defender Standards Council is a n i ne-member t ndependent agenc y within the executive b ranch of the state government whose T ission is to ens ure Lha t c l i e n t s receive a dequate and e t h i cal legal representa t t on .

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Hard d rives g ive n to grand jur y

At lanta school! b o a rd me mbers lasL week vot e d t o waive lega l p rivacy r i gh t s in c o nne cti on with a high-p r ofil e c h e a t i ng scanda l , a signal Lhe d ist ric t once c ri t i c i z ed f o r itp sec r ecy i s now att e mpti ng to f ull y c ooperate with a c rimin a l investigation . Ab b u t 2 0 compute r ha rd d r ives o f communicati o n amo ng bo a r d members, senior-le vel employees a nd staff att orneys wil l b e t u rne d o ver to t h e Fulton County g rand jur y , Superi ntendent 8rr oll Da vjs said . Officials rece ntly handed over 95 vol umes of DVDs , CDs and cassettes but a sked f or more time t o fully c ompl y wilhl the s ubpoena . The fu l ton County g rand jury g r a nted the request for a t h r ee-we ek xtension .

85 p o l i ce off i e r s lack manda tory t r a ini ng

An Atlanta Polic e Department audi t recently f ound at le as ~ 85 current o ffi c ers who had f all e n short of mandaLory training hours and did not have the aut ho r ity to ma ke a r r ests . The f i nd i ngs released l a st week b y the APD we re from an i n t ernal audi t tha t started a year ago after aca d emy sta f f found training defic ienc ies a mo ng o f f i cers retu r n i ng to duly a fter bei ng away for e xtend e d periods . By W e d ne~ day, t he training fai lures had b e en cor rec t e d for a l l but s eve n officers who r emained on admi rd strati ve d u t y , a s p okesman said .

ExecuLive comes from ailing hospital

The Te xas ho spital that Grady ' s fu ture CEO J o hn Haupert comes from l a s t wee k was i n dange r o f los i ng hundr eds o f mi l lions o f dollars i n f e dera l fund i ng a ft e r i nspec tors i dentified wi d espr e ad p robl ems . Duri ng a surv e y of Da l las ' Parkl and Memorial Hospital in Jul y , stat e inspector s found expired medications , empl oyees fai ling t o wash t h eir hands , pat i ents lost jn ha l l ways a nd i nad e quate s creening of p a t i e nts . Fede r a l r egulators t h r eatened t o cut off the public hospit a l 's Med i c a r e funding i f the probl ems weren ' t addre sse d . Ha upert , who will become Grady 's t op exec u t ive in October, ha s served a s Pa r kland ' s c hie f operati ng o fficer sjnce 200 6 .

COBB 1 Man, woman h e l d in fatal hit- a nd - run

Cobb County p olice l ast we ek arrested two people i n a h1 t - a nd- run wreck t hat ki l l ed a motorcydl ist Aug . 20 . Th e a r rests came after a tip led t o the discovery o r a v ehi c l e in 1 l abama. Brandon Mi chael Wes t o n, 32, of Smyrna and Pamela Kay Rice, 41 , o r M a r ~ett a were booked i n t o t he Cobb County j a i J Tu e sday o n char g es

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that included secl nd- degree vehi cular homicide, h i t-and-run and tampering with evidence , Cobb po i ce spokesman Dana Pierce said. Police say motorcyclist Emanuel R. Mitche 1, 31 , of Norcross died afte r b e ing s truck by t wo vehic les on I -75 near Windy H 11 Road . Sonni Smi t h , 23, o f AtlanLa t o l d police her Mazda 3 struc k Mitchell a "ter the driver of a Porschc made initial contact with t he motorcycle . Smith said the Porsche driver fled . According to an arrest warrant, Weston owned a 1987 silver Porsche 944 . DEKALB l School board h res superintendent

The DeKalb Coul t y school boar d on Monday voted 6-3 to hir e Cheryl L . H. Atkinson to become the next supe rintendent of Georgia's third- largest school district . Atkinson, ~2 , currently is superi ntendent in Lora in, Ohio, a 7 , 600- s tudenL dis ~ ric t with one high school . Her 30- year c areer includes top managemenL stints in disLricts much bigger t han DcKalb, including Kansas City, Mo ., and Charlot t . At kinson 's c ont racL, which expires Sept . 11 , 2014 , guarantees an ann a l salary of $275, 000 . Dissent came from board members Don McCh esney, Pamela Speaks and Nancy Jester .

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Cherokee boardt votes to reopen reservoir t al ks

The Cherokee C unty Water and Sewage Authority board voted l a st week t o reopen talks with Canton and t he Cobb County- Marietta Waler Aut h ority on the sale or restrucLu ing of management of the Hickory Log Creek Reservoir . Twenty- five percent of the reservoir is owned by Canton, which is trying t o unload its estima t ed $30 million debt on the reservoir . The initial projected cost of $20 mil l i r n has risen to $ 120 mill ion .

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Leaders make case f or incorp orat ion

Sta te Rep . Tom Rice and United Peachtree Corners Civic Association President Mike Mason Lold the a crowd of SOO residents Monday nighL to get out the vote for the Nov . 8 re ~ er endum that would allow Peachtree Corners t o become Gwinnett Co unty ' s 1 6Lh cit . I f a majority of voLers a pprove the referendum, Peachtree Co rne rs would bee me the Jargest city i.n Gwinnett , wjth abou t 38, 0 00 residents . The city would t h~n h ire a c ity manager and host municipal e lections in the spring to fill out a six-member City Council .

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Sta te agency c t oses day care center

A s tate agency r ~c ently revoked the l icense o f a Jonesboro facility wh ere a toddler died in J ne after being left alone in a van . Marlo 's Magnificent Early Learning Center was found to have intentionally violated laws Lhat requi r ed iL to account for ch.i.ldren after a field trip . J azmin Green, 2 , died as a resul t:. , the Georgia Department of Barly Care and Learning said in a r eporl . Charged with cruelty to childrr n , i nvoluntary manslaughter and reckless conduct in Jazmin ' s death were owner arlo Fallings ; h er daughler, Quantabia Hopkins ; and a teenage relat ive .

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State maps face federal review

Lawmakers last we ek approved the l ast of Ge orgia ' s new political maps , ending a special redis t r~ c ting session with Republicans having cons o l i dated powe r

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across the state . The new maps , which include 14 new congressional districts and redrawn l egislati t e d istricts for the state House and Senate, now must b e vetted b y federal offici l s. They a lso could face a c ourt chal l enge, with Democrats havi ng a lready sk tched out a legal argument against the maps ' GOP - friendly changes.

Chambliss , Gingrey affirm F- 35 support

U. S . Sen . Saxbr Chambliss and U. S . Rep . Phi l Gingrey last week called Lockheed Martin ' s F- 35 J,ightning I I Joint Strike FighLer program critical t o the nat ion's defense . The t wo Republican leaders sai d that with the ~-22 program winding down, Lhe F- 35 is expecte d t o pick up t he slack and needs to be funded to continue America' s air dominance . Lockheed's Marietta plant is producing the center wing or " heart" of the F- 35 . The work h as created about 300 jobs, but that number could increase to a bout 1 , 000 at p eak production, which is expected to come in 2015 , Lockheed officials said. Economic impact to the area i s estimated to be a r out $165 million.

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The University of Georgia School of Law pla ns to launch a new program this spring that will allow about 15 s tudents to live and work in Washington, D. C . for a semester wh t le earning course credit .

Par ticipants w ~ l l live ln housing mainLained by UGA and work with government agencies or natiopal organizations . S Ludents wi ll a l so complete a course taught by a professor frpm a l ocal law school and a clinic seminar class.

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Tues~~;--September 6~: · ;~~ 1 Going to the 'undiscJosed location' By Larry Thompson. Special to the Daily Report

On that fateful morning, I was preparing for a meeting with the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island concerrg a sensitive investigation. Attorney General John Ashcroft was out of town on a speaking engagef ..ent.

The television in my office was turned on because my assistant had told me there was a flre in one of the World Trade Center towers. When I saw the airplane hit the second tower, I inunediately knew what had happened cmd ordered the evacuation of the Justice Department's majestic Main Building.

I then received telepJ one calls from Richard Clarke, the national counterterrorism coordinator for the National Security Cohncil, and from Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser. Shortly after, the U.S. marshals ftrmly whisked me away to the notorious "undisclosed location."

On the way to the new, temporary seat of the U.S. government, I briefly recalled a meeting that summer with Acting FBI Director Tom Pickard, where he related to those assembled how much "noise" was in our c9unterintclligence system regarding potential terrorist attacks- although no worst-case scenario ven came close to the horrific events that actually occurred on our very own homeland.

Yes, for a moment, there was the fleeting sense of guilt that came from being a senior government official. "Should I hat e done anything different?" I asked myself. However, I really did not have time for second guessing. ~pt. 11 redefined the mission of the Department of Justice. From that day on, the men and women of the department worked tirelessly as the defense of our nation and the safety of its citizens became our overriding priority. Prevention became our watchword.

I did, however, notice something remarkably normal-and quintessentially American-in our common reaction to ~ pt. 11. We all pulled together to support each other, to preserve our way of life, and to rise to the enormous challenges that had been thrust upon us.

Pointedly, I remember a senior attorney, a partner in a respected Atlanta law firm, repeatedly calling me. When we finally connected, he volunteered to come to Washington and do whatever we wanted him to do, including eviewing documents. He was very serious. He told me that his wife had asked why he wanted to do this. He replied, "If these twisted, demonic men arc willing to die for their evil cause, 1 certainly am not making much of a sacrifice by giving up a couple of bucks to serve my country."

I am very proud of the work the department did in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Everything possible was done to secure the safety of our citizens without changing the essential character of this great nation. For me, both as a citizen and a lawyer, there has never been as righteous of a cause or a

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case as important.

As a profession, whether we are prosecutors or defense lawyers, we all have played important roles in the nation's justice syfem, which has had to deal with seemingly competing and intractable interests in the face of terror is . Of course, we will sometimes differ on these issues, but we should never allow honest and goo -faith disagreements to turn into a vitriol that can erode the spirit and sense of common purpose tha was manifest in our profession following Sept. 11.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011 The first GC at Homeland Security By Jonathan Ringel, r anaging Editor

I Joe D. Whitley woke up on Sept. 11 at a hotel near Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he was representing a witness in a court-martial. The phone rang early, and it was his wife, telling him that his father, who'd been suffering from ~ long illness, had died.

Whitley thought that his father would have wanted him to complete his job before dealing with funeral arrangements so he did just that, joining his client for a van ride to the military base. As a former Justice Depa;fment official who'd worked on the Lockerbie terrorism case, Whitley thought that security was pa ~ icularly lax at the base, with guards not looking in or under the vehicle as it passed through the gate.

While waiting for th~court-martial to convene, he heard that a small plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. omeone moved a TV to the waiting area, and the full extent of the news started to unfold, but the co rt-martial went on as scheduled and adjourned around lunchtime.

By that point, things had changed, Whitley says. Security became "incredibly tight," and all air traffic had been stopped, so he had to drive his rental car back to Atlanta.

Along the 500-rnile r ute, Whitley called family and friends to talk about his father, and he called colleagues to talk about the terror attacks.

"You should avoid the 'I' word," says Whitley, when discussing the 9/11 attacks. "It was such a 'we' event."

Nonetheless, he remembers comparing the pain of his father's death, which was expected even if it occurred suddenly, t that of families of the terror victims, most of whom simply left the house that day to go to work.

"I'm so glad I had time to get prepared," he says.

Another thought he ecalls from that drive, he said, was, "I wish I could do something."

In early 2003, Whitl y received his chance when he became the ftrst general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, serving until 2005. He helped the fust secretary, Tom Ridge, combine 22 separate government agencies and departments into one cabinet-level department with a wide range of missioh-s that included: guarding borders and coastlines, managing airport security, enforcing imrnigratio~ laws, coordinating relief after man-made and natural disasters and protecting the president and vice president.

As the I Oth anniversr ry of 9111 approaches, Whitley says that homeland security has "become an

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industry of sorts," wiJh many corporations now running divisions with security products and services to sell.

A wide range of legal issues come up in the Homeland Security arena, he says, including insurance, background-checkin~ businesses, privacy, the sharing of data, laws for first responders and good Samaritans-even HlrAA laws, because first responders may need access to victims' health records after a terrorist event.

For lawyers in these urity field, he says they "still feel a sense of urgency about it" that others may not feel.

"It's very much embedded in our day-to-day lives," he adds, adding that it's a challenge to keep people ready "without soun ing like Chicken Little."

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One day Georgi ' s 2012 Teacher of t he Ye ar lea ds a CBS t e l evision network crew on a t o u r o f his s chool i n Bi bb Count y a nd ans we r s questions p osed b y a nat ional corr e s po 1dent . [Watch t he CBS c l ip} (htt : //www . cbsne s. com/vi d e o /wat ch/?id=7 3 l 9 23 3n } The f o l l owing week, Jadun McCart h y s i t s acr s s t he tabl e from t wo Fort Va l ley St a t e Unive r sit y educ a t ion studen ts wi t h p o i nted q ues t i ons of t heir own .

Maco n, Ga . nat ves La Ria Wa lker, a s enior in ea r l y chil d hood deveJopme n t / s peci 1 e duca t ion, and Bren t on Fog g, a sen ior i n hea l t h a nd p hys i c a l educa tion, are a n i ous Lo g r a d uate a nd become tea c he r s. Both a r e product s o f t he Bib b Count y Schoo Syst em . Walker wa nts t o know about the qual iti e s t hat produ ce p r oficie n t e d uca t r s . " Re l e vance i s ke y ," McCa r t h y t e l ls her .

The v a lid i t y o s t a ndardi z ed t e s t s s uch a s the SAT a nd AC T i n d e t e rmi n i ng s t ud ent s uc cess i ll col l ege i s a n o t h e r i s s ue discussed during t h e h o u r - l o ng meet ing .

Fogg h as wo rk e ~ a t Fort Val l e y Mi dd l e School as a Lu to r f o r the l ast t wo year s ; a n d coa cheh b a s ketbal l a t both ForL Va lley Midd l e and Pe ach Co u nty Hi gh school s . He ' s l e ani ng f i rst han d how t o ha nd l e s t udent s wit h b ehav i o r p robl ems a nd under s tands t e p a r e nta l rol e o f t e acher s .

Du r i ng h i s s i x yea r s a s an e d ucator, Mc Ca rthy has handled c hal lenges the asp iri ng young ed c ato r s wi l l l i ke l y f ace and many mo r e . Af l e r interv i ews , a s peech and v i d eo bserva t i on b y a p anel of j udges , t he Englis h Language Arts t e ache r f rom Nort east Hea l th Sci e n ce Magne t High Sc hool compe t e d a g a i nst 154 d ist rict t e a cher s in t he stat e to r e ceive t he teaching a ward i n Ma y . Hi t ' s o v e r whelming a t t mes a nd u nexpect ed," he s a i d . " The re a r e hundre ds of t hous ands o f grea t t e a c her s I' m blessed t o r epr esen t t he q reat t e a c h e r s i n this s t a t e."

McCarthy gradu Led from the Universily ot Georgia School of Law, b ut r ealize d on graduation nig t lhal teaching was t h e career h e wante d t o p u r s ue, not law . He r e turned to h i f a lma ma t e r in Macon f o r a j ob in t h e c lassroom .

HE very chi ld d r serves a g r ea t t e ache r i n e ve ry class," is the mess a g e the n e wl y minted Teact e r o f the Year wi l l s peak a b o u t d u ring p ubli c app earances . lle'll compe t e w i t ~ honorees throughout the cou n try t o be named t he 2 012 Na t i o n a l Te a c he r o f t h e Ye r next s pri ng .

FVSU studen t s n t he Co l l ege o f Educ a t ion wi l l have t he opportunity to h e ar Mc Carthy ' s phi l os , p hy about p ubli c educat i on d uri ng FVSU' s e d uca t i.on inducti on cere mony on Nov . 7 .

Dr. Edwa rd L. i l l , ct COE educaLlonal consult ant , was instr ument al i n a r rang ing t he lea ning e xperie nce f o r Wa l ker a nd Fogg; and for i nvi t i n g t he s t a t e' s t op teach r to c a mpus as guest s p e ake r .

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ALBANY, Ga. ·- Hall Booth Smith & Slover, P.C. has strengthened its statewide reach and experience in several key areas with the addition of Patrick Millsaps to the firm's litigation and transactional practice areas. With more than a decade of work as a successful litigator and business transaction attorney, Mr. Millsaps most recently was the proprietor of the Millsaps Law Firm in Camilla, Georgia (Mitchell County), which will merge with HaD Booth Smith and Slover effective today.

Mr. Millsaps joins HBSS as a partner. For now, he will maintain his Camilla office and will primarily work with the firm's Albany office. He will bring two additional employees of The Millsaps firm to HBSS as well. Highlighted as a "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers Publications, he has extensi e experience in civil litigation, alternative energy, healthcare and education law. In the past ten years, Mr. Millsaps has obtained the largest jury verdict obtained in a South Georgian County; counseled the state's largest ethanol plant from feasibility to finance to production; was appointed by a Governor to represent the Georgia Department of Community Health; and ha!il represented the Mitchell County School Board for seven years.

"Patrick epitomizes the type of attorney we seek at Hall Booth - he is committed to excellence in his fteld and to serving his community and state," said Managing Partner John Hall.

Former Senator, Minority Leader, and Partner in Charge of the Albany Office, Michael Meyer von Bremen agrees, "We are thrilled that he and his team from The ~ illsaps Law Firm are joining our team here in Southwest Georgia." Throughout his career, Mr. ~ illsaps has served a diverse client base, including private citizens, businesses, government authorities, local governments and educational systems. He has been rated "AV Preeminent" by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating available for lawyers through this service, and received the designation as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Publications in 2010. He was named as one of Georgia's most influential leaders by James Magazine from 2007-2011; he has held leadership positions in local and state bar associations; and he has been appointed or elected to statewide positions on boards such as the U01versrty of Georg&a School of Law Board of V5rtors, the State School Board of Georgia and the Georgia Production Partnership, a state-wide coalition of leaders, compaDfs and 1ndrviduals who are active in Georgia's film, music and digital industries.

Mr. Millsaps currently serves las the Chairman of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance CommiSsion (formerly the State Ethics Commission). He has served on the Commission since 2009. He has also served as the 2nd congressional district repres~ ntative on the Georgia Student Finance Commission and as a member of the Georgia Superior Court Clerks Cooperative Authority. He cut his political teeth as a state political director for Sen. Johr'lr'ly Isakson in 1996 and as a policy advisor for the Georgia State School Board in 1999.

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2 of3 9/8/201 1 11 :20 AM Candidates tor Senate seats in Buc lead, east Georgiajwnp in I Politi. .. http:l/blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/20 11 /09/08/candi ... AJ -G

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Candidates for Senate seats in Buckhead, east Ga. jump in 3:52pm Septerrber 8, ,011, by jgalloway

To wit:

- Josh Belinfante, the former member of what was once the state ethics commission. formally enlisted in the Republican contest for the District 6 seat occupied by Democrat Doug Stoner of Smyrna. The district is now largely Republidan, and includes much of Buckhead and Sandy Springs. From Belinfante:

As Gov. Sonn. Perdue's legal counsel and a member of the Georgia State Ethics Comnission, I strived for accountability and results for the people of Georgia. Now. I look to continue achieving results by imp oving our neighborhoods and remaining accountable to the best interests of this district."

"From my birt at Northside Hospital, through my experiences living and working in Buckhead, Sandy Spring and Smyrna. I have always called this district home. I know the issues we face in today's world. The state of the economy and challenges in finding a job are the top issues on everyone's mind. I want to be at the table representing my community when those issues are

discussed. n

Josh and his wife Karina live Sandy Springs with their children Cole and lan. After graduating from Pace Acadeny, Josh received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law. Josh is currently a partner at RobbinsFr ed in Atlanta.

- State Rep. Rick Austin, R-Demorest, filed paperwork today to run in the special election for the District 50 seat of state Sen. Jih, Butterworth of Cornelia, who will assume the position of adjutant general of the Georgia National Guard.

Butterworth will leavJ. office Oct. 2. Austin anticipates a Nov. 8 special election- though the date has yet to be formally set.

From the press rele se: I Said Austin: "ll-Jort:heast Georgia needs a Senator who is a proven leader and a proven conseNative.IThe issues are too important and the challenges too great to have a novice in the Senate representing us. I am running because I believe I am the kind of effective and experienced conseNative eader we need.

Throughout my seNice on the County Commission and in the State House. I have championed legislation that supports small businesses and I have consistently opposed tax increases. I have the experiencf to effectively lead from Day One in the State Senate and I'm ready to get the job done for all the people of the 50th District."

Rick Austin w s born in 1966 and was raised on a small farm in Habersham County. He graduated from Piedmon College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science.

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- We also understand that state Rep. lee Anderson, R-Grovetown. on Monday will become the first Republican to challenge U.S. Rep. John Barrow. 0-Savannah, in the newly drawn 12th congressional district.

Anderson is setting up meetings with local leaders in the southeast Georgia territory through the weekend.

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Posted: September 10 Updated: Today at 2:00AM 1 COMMUNI1'Y OUTREACH Bobby a nd J ackiJ Soper honored for their time and dedication Holly Van Leuve n For The Times Leader

While watching sbbby Soper, surrounded by whiteboards fu ll of notes and speaking with a warm , measured tempo, head the conference table at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, it's difficult to pinpoint just wherle this man's ability to connect to people comes from. • Perhaps it can be traced back to the University of Georgia, where Soper earn,ed aBBA in Economics, as well as a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law. Maybe it comes from his daily practice of enabling guests to enjoy themselves at Mohegan Sun as its President and CEO, positions he has held since the casino dpened in 2005. It may very well be inspired by Soper's wife, Jackie, whose dedication to community service opened the door for Soper to invest his time and talent into numerous area cHarities, or from their children, Dalton and Isabella.

Most likely, Soperl charisma can be attributed to a little of all his various life experiences, but Ifyougo What: Greater Wilkes-Barre Association to watch him cut t ~ rough the loud, bright for the Blind's Annual Award s Dinner casino, where young valets dressed in black honoring Bobby and Jackie Soper with refer to him as "Soper" with as much reverence its Community Partnership Award and and admiration as one word can contain, while Frank Wolfe Sr. with its Arline Phillips he offers a smile qnd1 a wave for all, you can't Achievement Award help but think his demeanor is incredible. Soper, however, islgetting credit for the vast When: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 ; 6 p.m. amount of talent he shares freely with Where: Woodlands Inn and Resort, Northeast Pennsylvania away from Mohegan Plains Township Sun's torrent of coors and chirruping Ticket info: $125 per person. machines. Bobby and Jackie Soper have been Call: 570-693-3555 or toll-free at honored with the Greater Wilkes-Barre 877-693-3555. Association for the Blind's Community Partnership Award in recognition of the many organizations they serve. On Sept. 20, the couple will be celebrated at the Associaton's

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annual awards dinner at the Woodlands Inn & Resort, Wilkes Barre.

'The organizations we serve have given us insight into the region," the Georgia nativJ says, "You learn about people, about culture, and you hear a lo l of inspirational stories. It has helped me put my own life in context When I have a challenging day, it makes me stop and realize J Y life is not so difficult."

Soper's first foray into service in the area was through the regional 1 branch of United ~ay, an organization he had worked closely with while employed a the original Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. Since then, his wife's in olvement in community outreach encouraged Soper to join othe 1 organizations.

"Jackie enjoys wo ~king with vulnerable members of society," Soper says, "especially 9hildren. There's really no specific criteria for the organizations we t ork with, it's more about the nature of the organization and the work they do, the people involved with it. This really is the valley with a heart. Jackie and I feel very fortunate to be where we're at. There are so many wonderful organizations here that it's hardi or me to say no. If it weren't for limited time, I'd love to be involve with them all."

Between both oft em, the Sopers compile a formidable list. Both work with the AssC>ciaton for the Blind in addition to a number of other charities. B~r by currently serves as Chair of the United Way of Wyoming Valle~ ; as well as the Board of Directors, Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com'Jerce; Board of Directors & Vice Chairman, Greater Wilkes-B1rre Chamber of Business & Industry; Board of Trustees, Misericordia University; Board of Directors, VWIA Public Broadcasting; Bo~rd of Directors and Treasurer, Northeast Regional Cancer ICstitute; Board of Directors and Vice President, Scranton Chamber of Commerce; Board of Directors and Vice Chairman, Scrant~n Tomorrow; Board of Directors, Volunteers in Medicine and Board of Directors, Northeast Pennsylvania 1 Technology lnstitu e.

Jackie Soper servt s on the Board of Ambassadors for the American Cancer Eociety Ball of Hope, Northeast PA; the board of Directors, Domest1c Violence Center; the Parent Association Board, Wyoming Semina'lY;1 the Board of Directors, Catholic Youth Center; and also serves a~ a volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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She is the Directo[ of the Hand Bell Choir at Gate of Heaven Parish in Dallas as well ~s Cantor and Wedding Coordinator for the parish. Jackie is a so actively involved in the Martial Arts as a Program Coordin1tor and Student Instructor for the Unified Fighting Arts Association.

"They are proud al d devoted leaders who are known for their compassion and dedicated service to worthy causes. And as active members of our cbmmunity, they are always willing to partner for the good and wellr ess of all in need," says Ron Petrilla, Executive Director of the Gri ater Wilkes-Barre Association for the Blind, which is honoring ~he Sopers for all of their service projects. "Bobby and Jackie have been good to us for a number of years," Petrilla says, citinq their help with and support of hosting the annual dinner in tlhe past, as well as the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon.

While Soper's abJility to juggle stressful positions seems natural, he laughs at the tho ght. "I'm far from perfect. I work hard to prioritize, 1 but I think commuhity service is a very important value." There's no doubt about just 1ow much Soper values his community. He believes that over ~ he past 5 years, residents have grown more optimistic despite the many challenges that present themselves in day-to-day life. H, is confident that area residents will look to the perseverance of tHeir ancestors whose hard work served as the foundation for a tt iving Wyoming Valley.

"The area has a lot to offer," Soper says, "there's entertainment, higher education, bnd access to big cities. Overall, it's a fairly high quality of life for alrelatively low cost of living . I am confident that area business will continue to grow. "

The Sopers hope o remain in the area for many years to come, and have embrac, d local culture- particularly, the joys of Old Forge pizza and county fairs. But even the pierogis here can't beat the people for seder. He says, "At the end of the day for me, it's about interacting + th people, whether that means giving them a great guest experience or helping out at a nonprofit."

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3 of3 9112/2011 9: 02AM UGA chapter of Blue Key Honor Society to present service award

Subject: UGA cha,J:ter of Blue Key Honor Society to present service award From: UGA News !Service Date: 9/13/2011 3:55PM • To:

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Writer: Juliett Din~ ns, 706/542-8017, jdinkins(a)ugudu Contact: Janet H. Lance, 706/542-0017, [email protected]

UGA chapter of Blue Key Honor Society will honor three with its service award

Athens, Ga. - The UGA chapter of the Blue Key National Honor Society will recognize three UGA alumni and one facu ty member at its annual awards banquet Sept. 30.

David Ralston, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives; business executive Donald A Perry and UGA faculty member Charles S. Bullock II I will receive Blue Key Service Awards for their civic contributions. In addition, state Sen. Charles J. Bethel will receive the Young Alumnus Award.

The banquet, which Lopen to the public, will be held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. The reception wiii begin at 6:30p.m., and the dinner will start at 7:30 p.m. Individual tickets are $30. The eight-seat Silver Sponsor Table is $300, and the eight-seat Gold Sponsor Table is $500. Contact Janet Lance at 706-542-0017 or jholcomb@uga. edu by Sept. 23 to reserve tickets.

Ralston, who is servi g his ninth term in the state f louse of Representatives, will speak at the banquet.

ln addition, recipient1 of the AT&T Student Leadership Award, the Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Award and the Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship will be announced.

na,id Ralston Ralston, who represents House District 7, is being honored for his leadership in state government and for his contributions iohigher education. A 1980 graduate of UGA's School of Law, Ralston served in the Georgia State Senate from 1992-1998.'"E lcctcd to the Georgia l louse of Representatives in 2002, he chaired the House Judiciary Non-Civil committee, was vice-chair of the Judiciary committee and also served on the Appropriations, Rules, Transportation and Government Affairs committees.

An attorney in Blue Ridge, Ralston has worked with the Fannin County Chamber of Commerce, the Blue Ridge Mountain1 Arts Association and the Blue Ridge Lions Club.

Don Perry Perry, who earned his bachelor's degree in public relations from UGA in 1974, is being honored for his professional and civic contributions as well as his support of higher education in Georgia.

After spending nearly! a decade with General Electric Co., Perry joined Chick-lil-A in 1983 and is currently vice president for public relations. He is responsible for external communications and publicity programs in support of key company initiatives.

Actively involved witp the Georgia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, Perry served as chapter president im 1993 and was later inducted into the chapter's "Order of the Phoenix" and its

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Hall of Fame. He has been involved in other industry organizations, including the Emory University Public Affairs Advisory Council, which he chaired from 1994-1996, and the Atlanta Press Club's Public Relations Council.

At UGA, Perry has s rved on the professional advisory board of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communicatiok; as a member of the board of trustees for the University of Georgia Arch Foundation; and on the editorial advisory board of Georgia Magazine, the university's alumni publication.

Charles Bullock Bullock is being honored for his distinguished career and his many years of support for academic programs at UGA.

Bullock joined the fatuity in 1968 and has served continuously except for the year he was a legislative assistant to Congress an Bill Stuckey and the two years he was a political science professor at the University of Housto .

'The Richard B. Russell Professor ofPolitical Science, Bullock received the university's William A. Owens Creative Research Award in 1991 and was named a Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor-the highest teaching honor bestowed by the university-in 2005. His teaching and research specialties are legislative politics and Southern politics.

A past president ofthe Southern Political Association and the Georgia Political Science Association, Bullock also is a past chair of the Legislative Study Group. In addition, he has served on the executive councils of the Amer can Political Science Association, the Southern Political Science Association and the Georgia Political Science Association.

Charlie Bethel Bethel is being honored for his professional leadership and civic contributions as well as continuing support for his alma rpater.

hct 1el graduated cun laude from UGA in 1998 with a bachelor's de&,JTee in management; he graduated ·rom the School or I. aw in 200 I.

The director of corporate affairs for J&J Industries Inc., he was elected to the Georgia Senate in 2010 to represent Senate District 54. He serves on several committees including Judiciary, Special Judiciary, Insurance and Labor, Retirement and Reapportionment and Redistricting. He also serves as a deputy whip for the Republioan Caucus.

In addition to serving on the Dalton City Council, Bethel is active in the Dalton Rotary Club, the Dalton Parks and Re reation Department and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. In 2008, he was selected as a member of the Dalton Magazines inaugural 20 under 40 class, and Georgia Trend named him to its 40 under 40 list for the state of Georgia.

Founded in 1924, the Blue Key National Honor Society has more than 300 chapters throughout the U.S. The UGA chapter, which was started in 1926 as the second in the nation, has presented the Blue Key Service Award since 1964 to distinguished citizens who have made important contributions to the nation, state, UGA and their communities.

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More information about the Blue Key Honor Society is available online at www.uga.edu/bluekey.

Note to editors: Images of David Ralston, Don Perry, Charles Bullock and Charlie Bethel are available for download at http:/ /multimedia. ug(\.edu/ media/images/ralston david. jpg, http://multimedia. uga.ed u/media/images /perry don.jpg, htt :k multimedia.u 'a.edu/media/ima es/bullock charles.· and http://multimedict,ug .edu!media/images/bethel charlie.jpg.

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3 on 9/14/2011 12:15 PM former Georgia chiefjustice to speak at Talarico Lecture S~V'V\C6 Subject: Former Georgia chief justice to speak at Talarico Lecture From: UGA News Service Date: 9/13/2011 4:26PM To:

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Writer: Joy R Holloway, 706/542-7849, [email protected] Contact: Marian Arnold, 706/542-7079, [email protected]

Former Georgia chief justice to speak at Talarico Lecture

Athens, Ga. - Forme~ Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears will deliver the Susette M. Talarico Lecture at the University of Georgia Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room in Dean Rusk Hall.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the UGA School of Public and International AfTairs' department of political science and the criminal justice studies program and is a blue-card event.

Sears became the first woman and youngest person ever to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court when she was appointed in 1992. There she spearheaded the Commission on Children, Marriage and Family Law, which addrcsse the legal and administrative issues resulting from the increasing fragmentation of Georgia's families. She was also instrumental in the formation of the Committee on Civil Justice, an organization that dcv· lops, coordinates and supports policy initiatives to expand access to the courts for low-income Georgia residents.

Sears again made history in 2005 as the first African-American female chief justice in the United States when she was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. There she served until her retirement from the bench in 2009.

"We are honored to h,avc Leah Ward Sears deliver this year's Talarico Lecture," said political science department head Johrl A. Maltese. " She is a trail blazer ~n d a role model with a wealth of experience on both sides of the bench."

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Sears spent her formative years in Savannah, Ga. She received her bachelor 's degree at Cornell University, her juris doctor from Emory University and a master of laws from the University of Virginia School of Law. She began her legal career with the Jaw ftrm of Alston & Bird and then left wivate practice to begin a career in public service as a judge with Atlanta's City Traflic Court. At the age of 32, she was elected to the Fulton County Superior Court.

Currently, Sears is a plartner with the law tlrm of Schiff Hardin and is the Distinguished Fellow in Family Law at the Institute for American Values, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution.

The Talarico lecture is made possible by a fund created to honor longtime l GA professor Susette Talarico. \\'ho \Yas a facult) member at UGA for more than three decades. ·lalarico \\US an Albert Herr) Saye Professor of ,\mcrican Government and Constitutional La\\ and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor. She served as dircctur of the criminal justice studies program for 22 years.

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A reception will follov the lecture, which is free and open to the public. For more information, call 706/542-7079.

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Friday, September 16, 201 1 Davis supporters make final push for clemency The last time the State Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted a death sentence was in 2008 By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter

With Troy Anthony Davis' legal options seemingly exhausted, opponents of his execution now are focusing their campaign on the five-member board that will hear his bid for clemency on Monday.

Davis is scheduled to die Wednesday for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. His lawyers' efTorts pressing his innocence claims in the courts have resulted in stays of previous execution dates but ultimately have come up empty.

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles in 2008 denied Davis' request that his death sentence be commuted to a life. sentence. Still, Davis' supporters are trying again, pointing to changes in the board's membership as one reason to hope fo r a different result.

On Thursday, Davis supporters delivered to the board petitions and letters calling for clemency for Davis. The paper drop at the Sloppy Floyd Administration Building in Atlanta included a petition bearing what the groups said were more than 663,000 signatures and separate letters signed by religious leaders, death row exonerees, other murder victims' family members and legal professionals.

Anne S. Emanuel, a law professor at Georgia State University who chaired an American Bar Association committee that examined Georgia's death penalty, hauled one of 14 bankers boxes of pleas to the board. "Everyone agrees that before the state may take life, it must give justice," Emmanuel told reporters at a press conference organized by Amnesty International and the NAACP as a prelude to the delivery. "In this case, justice has not yet prevailed."

Georgia lawyers signing on to the legal professionals' letter include former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman S. Fletcher, who as a justice joined the unanimous opinion that upheld Davis' conviction and sentence but dissented from the court's 2000 rejection of Davis' challenge to the state's since-discarded mode of execution, the electric chair. Others signing on include Phillip S. McKinney, John J. Almond and Robert B. Remar of Rogers & Hardin; former ABA President R. William Ide III of McKenna Long & Aldridge; state Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, D-Atlanta; and family lawyer Shelley A. Scnterfitt.

Ann G. Fort of Sutherland, who represented the last inmate to have his death sentence commuted by the pardons and parole board, was another signer.

Former President Jimmy Carter sent his own letter asking the board to grant clemency, as did Larry D. l"hompson, a King & Spalding alum, deputy U.S. attorney general during the administration of George W. Bush and now a law professor at the University of Gcor~:,Tia. Former Republican congressman turned Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, himself a Georgia lawyer, told the board he

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supports capital punishment but backed clemency for Davis given doubts about his guilt.

Barr \vrote that the s andard applied by the federal judge who presided over an unusual hearing in the case last year "made it virtually impossible for Davis to prevail."

Davis' lawyers had long called for a judge to review evidence they say shows Davis did not murder MacPhail, who was shot when he came to the aid of a homeless man being beaten in a Burger King parking lot. Davis' supporters have claimed seven of the state's non-law enforcement trial witnesses have recanted their testimony since the trial.

In August 2009, Davis' supporters got their wish for an evidentiary hearing, courtesy of an unusual U.S. Supreme Court decision that sent the case to U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. of Savannah.

In the summer of2010, Moore heard two days of testimony and ultimately declared that he wasn't impressed with Davis' evidence. Moore \Vfote that two of the witnesses who, according to Davis' team, had recanted didn1t directly say they lied at trial. Two others were impossible to believe, said Moore, because pros~cutors and law enforcement witnesses had credibly refuted the witnesses' claims that they had been coerced into testifying at trial against Davis.

Moore issued further criticism of Davis' team because they didn't call some witnesses who had purportedly recanted in affidavits.

Moore said he found credible the recantation of Kevin McQueen, who testified at trial that Davis had confessed to him while the two were incarcerated, but the judge concluded McQueen's testimony was so out of line with thJ testimony of the other state's witnesses that it should have been obvious to everyone at trial that he was lying, making his recantation not very damaging to the state's case.

Finally, the judge discounted the testimony of those who said another man, Sylvester Coles, had told them he killed MacPhail-because Davis' lawyers didn't subpoena Coles before the hearing. Moore said that witnesses who claimed they saw Coles shoot MacPhail were not credible- noting as an example that each time witness Benjamin Gordon had made a statement in the long-running case, he added new details that helped Davis' claim of innocence.

But before delivering the petitions on Thursday, Amnesty's Laura Moye said new testimony by Gordon since the parole board last convened on Davis' case is one reason to hope the board will look at the case ditferentlJI this time.

She also noted the five-member board has three new members since it last considered Davis' case.

New to the board are James E. Donald, the former commissioner of the state Department of Corrections; Albert l\;turray, a longtime commissioner of the state Department of Juvenile Justice; and Terry E. Barnard, a former state representative from coastal Georgia who shepherded through the Legislature the framework for the state sex offender registry in the rnid-1990s.

Board members L. G le Buckner, a former Georgia Bureau oflnvestigation lobbyist, and Robert E. Keller, a former Clayton County DA who went on to chair the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, were on the board when it denied clemency for Davis in 2008. All five current members were appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

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"We also are hopeful because the board of pardons and paroles has a very wide discretion," added Moye, saying the board isn't hampered by the "technicalities" she said had hung up the courts.

The board makes clemency decisions by a secret majority vote. Although the board generally doesn't explain the bases for its decisions, Davis' supporters continue to point to the board's statement when it granted Davis a 90-day stay in July 2007. The board said then that it "will not allow an execution to proceed in this State Lnless and until its members are convinced that there is no doubt as to the guilt of the accused."

Lawyers for Davis, who has been represented in recent years by Brian S. Kammer of the Georgia Resource Center and pro bono counsel at Arnold & Porter in Washington, are expected to make the presentation on his behalf at Monday's board appointment.

Although board meetings are not public and neither a board spokesman nor the office of District I Attorney Larry Chisolm would say if or when the state would make a presentation to the board, DAs generally are afforded a separate audience with the board on clemency matters.

A spokeswoman for t hisolm said the onice had a strict policy of not commenting on pending cases.

TheDA who prosecuted Davis in 1989, Spencer Lawton Jr., also declined to comment for this story given the case was still ongoing. Earlier this year, however, Lawton wrote a column for the Daily Report when he thought the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to revisit the case meant the matter was fmally over.

Lawton said the jury's 1991 verdict was "fair and honest" and Davis' lawyers "were far better at generating an international public relations campaign than at producing actual evidence to back up their claims of actual innocence."

Randy Robertson, firSt vice president of the Georgia state lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he has sent emails as far as Hong Kong and Australia urging law enforcement to contact the board and make their feelings on the matter known. But Robertson said he expected the board to base its decision in large part on the courts' review of the matter, saying he hopes the board won't be swayed by public opinion.

He said groups opposing Davis' execution were "misguided" by their opposition to the death penalty. "They are willing to violate the rights of those jurors as American citizens, and also they discount the crime that was committed by Troy Davis," said Robertson. "And I have no doubt in my mind that Troy Davis was the one that executed Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in the parking lot of that Burger King."

One thing that may g~ ve Robertson comfort as the board considers the matter: Out of dozens of clemency requests received by the pardons and paroles board since 1995, the board has granted only three. The last one, Fort client Samuel David Crowe, had pleaded guilty to his crime and based his bid for leniency on his remorse, difficult childhood and role as a peacemaker within the prison system. Crowe's sentence wa$ commuted in 2008.

Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, Davis' supporters are expected to march from Atlanta's Woodrufi Park to Ebenezer Baptist Church for a program of prayer, speakers and song from the Indigo Girls and gospel choirs.

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Einhorn has been named amo11g the Michigan Super Lawyers for each of the past five years. For more than three decades, he has been at the forefront of legal issues affecting lawyers, judges. courts. businesses and insurers. The Wayne State Uniwrsity Law School alum hQs litigated numerous court cases and disciplinary proceedings that have shaped Michigan law with issues ranging from lawyers' potential liability to clients for defamation. to judicial candidates' free speech rights.

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The University of Georgia has adopted a new, tougher sexual harassment policy that for the first time explicitly defines sexual violence as a violation of UGA policy.

The university's cabinet, a group of high-ranking administrators, adopted the new Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy with little discussion in a Thursday meeting.

The new policy also takes jurisdiction over student-on-student harassment complaints away from the UGA Student Affairs office and places it under the UGA Equal Opportunity Office, which already handles cases involving UGA workers.

For the most part, the new policy is the same as the old one, UGA Law School Dean Rebecca White told the group at Thursday's meeting. White, a labor lawyer, chaired the group that revised the nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policy over the summer.

Sexual violence w s already against UGA's anti-discrimmation policy, for example; the revised policy just makes the prohibition more explicit, she said. Under the revised policy, sexual conduct violations are clearly covered in cases when a person is intoxicated or otherwise incapable of giving consent.

The new policy also requires supervisors to disclose to a higher administrator any dating or consensual sexual relationship they have with a person under their supervision.

Under both the old and revised policy, UGA professors and graduate teaching assistants are flatly prohibited from sex with their students, or even dating them. I Although UGA administrators who investigate corJ'l)laints of harassment will try to keep names confidential, they cannot guarantee confidentiality, according to the policy changes the cabinet adopted Thursday.

UGA had to revise the policy because of recent changes in federal law, said 1im Burgess, UGA's senior vice president for finance and administration.

The U.S. Department of Education sent out a so-called "Dear Colleague Letter" in April directing colleges to clamp down on sexual harassment of students, particularly sexual violence -- acts prohibited under Title IX, a federal law prohibiting discrimination based on gender.

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"A number of different acts fall into the category of sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and sexual coercion," according to the letter. "All such acts of sexual violence are forms of sexual harassment covered under Title IX."

White said the group drafting the policy placed oversight of student-on-student harassment complaints under the UGA Equal Opportunity Office to meet the new federal directions-- not because the student affairs office was not handling cases well.

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SAVANNN-1, Ga. - George's Board of Pardons and Paroles will consider wheher 10 grant clemency to dealh row iniTBie Troy l'llthony Davis Monday

The board will hear from his execution's supporters and opponent;.

Davis' case has attracted wOfkjwide attention in pan be<:au se no jury h as h eard evidence of w~ness recantations in h is case.

Seven of nine witnesses have taken tack their testimony in<::nminatng Davis in the 1989 rrurder of Savannah police otrocer Marl\ MacPhai .

Troy Althony lFtt~is I$ $Checkllect to die on Wedoesday for tataly shooWlg The slain ol ice( s son. Marl\ MacPhail Jr., plans to a ttend, Savannah pc:ice offi cer Marl t 1acPhail in 1989. (photo Goor~a along w~h many in his farrity. Department ot Couc:ctk>ns) I MacPhai says, Davis' exewtion is overdue.

'"To take 22 years to get JUsli1 is very much so a slap in the face to everyone Whoweers a badge; • MacPha~ says.

Davis will be ropresenl:>d by his lawyers and his family, who intend to stress the uncertainty in the case.

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'"They have said lhatlhey will not uphotl an execution unless QUI~ was certan:' VVilkes says "And so. by I hell' own standads, the Georg a Board of Pardons and Paroles ought to reduce hiS sentence to life w~hout parole"

Barring any last-minute change, Georgia will put Davis to deatl by lethal injection on \0\ednes:lay.

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~AlLY ~PORT a_BTcxtsize I Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Smith to leave Georgia Court of Appeals Resignation setfor year's end gives Deal an opportunity lo appoinl replacement By Alyson M. Palmer, StafTReporter

Less than a year into his term as governor, Nathan Deal has received his frrst opportunity to put his stamp on the state's appellate courts.

Court of Appeals Presiding Judge J.D. Smith handed the governor his letter of resignation Monday morning, Smith told the Daily Report. The

letter said Smith, who served as the court's chief judge from 2003 to 2004, plans to leave the court at the end of this year.

Smith, 65, could have served another s~- year term if re-elected next year without running into the state's virtually mandatory retirement age of 75 for appellate judges. But Smith became eligible to retire in July and had said for months that he likely wouldn't run again and was contemplating whether to serve out his term or leave early.

"It's time for a change," Smith said in an interview in his chambers following his Monday morning meeting with Deal. Smith noted that by year's end he will have been a judge for 27 years. "This just feels like the right time to go in a new direction, and I hope I'll have new challenges and new

opportunities."

Smith said his first grandchild was born Sept. I and he would like more flexibility to visit her in Valdosta. But he said he won't retire altogether, explaining he's looking into alternative dispute resolution work but hasn't finalized his plans. "I hope to fmd something that will be interesting and hopefully rewarding fmancially," he said.

Smith's decision to leave the court at the end of this year means Deal will appoint his replacement. If Smith instead had decided to serve out his term through the end of next year and simply not seek re-election, the voters would have chosen his successor in an open race.

Like Smith, Deal previously practiced in Gainesville, and Smith said the

two have known each other for 40 years. Smith noted that he was the frrst prospective juror struck from the panel when the governor's son, Hall County Superior Court Judge Jason J. Deal, presided over his frrst jury trial after being appointed to the bench in 2005. Smith said he hasn't talked to Deal, the governor's staff or the governor's Judicial Nominating Commission about who should fill his shoes. "It's not for me to say," said Smith, who expressed confidence the governor wi ll make an excellent pick.

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Jen Talaber of Deal's communications office confirmed the governor had received Smith's letter of resignation. She explained that because Smith's resignation wasn't effective until year's end, Deal had not yet discussed with his Judicial Nominating Commission a timetable for identifying Smith's replacement.

The newest member ofthe Court of Appeals, Christopher J. McFadden, was elected by the voters last year. The most recent appointments to the court, Keith R. Blackwell and Stephen L.A. Dillard, were tapped by Gov. Sonny Perdue earlier in 2010.

In making those appointments, Perdue passed over JNC shortlisters Christopher S. Brasher, a judge on the Fulton County Superior Court; N. Stanley Gunter, then the district attorney in the Enotah Circuit; J. Robert Persons, a partner at Smith Moore Leatherwood in Atlanta; and Matthew 0. Simmons, a judge on the Clayton County Superior Court; as well as three holdovers from the 2009 search for a new Supreme Court justice: James P. Kelly III, a solo practitioner in Atlanta; Mary E. Staley, a judge on the Cobb County Superior Court bench; and Benjamin W. Studdard III, the chief judge of the Henry County State Court.

A native of Hall County, Smith graduated from the University of Florida in 1968 and received his Ia\', degree from the University of Georgia in 1972. Smith worked as a law assistant to Justice William B. Gunter before going on to practice law at Gunter's former firm, now known as Hulsey Oliver & Mahar. Smith practiced in Gainesville for more than 12 years, handling what he termed "a little bit of everything," including litigation, estate planning and tax work.

He won election to the Northeastern Circuit Superior Court in 1984 by

defeating the incumbent, James E. Palmour III. As a trial judge, Smith presided over a pair of criminal cases in which the Court of Appeals upheld his ruling to allow a victim suffering from multiple personality disorder to testify both as her primary personality and as the personality of a young child.

Smith was a finalist for a spot on the state Supreme Court in 1993, but Gov. Zell Miller passed him over in favor of appointing George H. Carley. Smith then convinced Miller to appoint him to the opening left by Carley on the Court of Appeals, stressing to the governor that no one from northeast Georgia had served on either of the state's appellate courts since Justice Gunter left the Supreme Court in 1977. Facing the voters the following year, Smith survived an election challenge by Atlanta trial lawyer Sonja L. Salo. He was unopposed in subsequent elections.

Smith's name was offered up for a spot on the Georgia Supreme Court again in 2005, but the Judicial Nominating Commission did not place him on its list of five finalists for the spot Perdue filled with Harold D. Melton.

On Monday, Smith thanked Miller-the governor who put him on the Court of Appeals- and the voters for the opportunity to serve on the bench. "There are a lot of things I will miss ... but most of all I'll miss working with my colleagues and my staff," said Smith. "Those friendships will continue, I'm sure, but it's hard to step into another part of my life where I won't be seeing those people as frequently as I do now."

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Peter Spiro, Oharles R. Wei ner Profes sor of Law, Temp le Law School

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1eter Rutledge, professor of l aw, Un i verslty of Georgia Law School

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Will Davis' 'fight' fade?

By GREG BLUESTEIN -Associated Press 3 6 corrrnents Published Friday, September 23, 2011

ATLANTA-- Minutes before he was put to death, Troy Davis asked his supporters to "continue to fight this fight"-- but will they, and how?

The Georgia inmate's case outraged hundreds of thousands of people around the world who found the evidence against him weak, and opponents of the death penalty hope their anger provokes a backlash against capital punishment. Some activists say a fitting legacy of the case would be laws that bar death sentences for those, like Davis, whose convictions are based on eyewitness testimony.

With Davis gone, however, the loose coalition of groups who pushed for his freedom may simply Allie McCullen, a University of Georgia graduate, lights crumble. Much may depend not on the death a candle Thursday in front of a sign protesting the U.S. penalty's most strident opponents, but on less Supreme Court's decision not to stay the execution of politically active people who were drawn into the Troy Davis as Justice Clarence Thomas was taking part in events at UGA's School of Law debate by Davis' two-decade struggle.

That includes Melvin Middleton, who believes capital punishment can be appropriate. After learning more details about Davis' case, he decided to show up at a downtown Atlanta rally opposing the execution.

"If you're going to take someone's life, you better be damn sure you are making the right decision," he said. "I don't know if he's guilty or not, but he's not proven guilty."

Davis was executed late Wednesday for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. Defense attorneys said several key witnesses disputed their testimony and other people claimed that another man confessed to the crime, but state and federal courts repeatedly upheld the conviction.

Davis maintained his innocence even as he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber, where

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he told the MacPhail family to "look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth."

Prosecutors and MacPhail's relatives say they have no doubt that justice was done, but among Davis' supporters, frustration runs deep.

'We did not want to lose Troy Davis as a casualty of this war, but I do think that his execution in a real sense will only add momentum to the movement of those of us who understand that the state really cannot be trusted with the ultimate punishrrent," said the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who spoke on Davis' behalf at a pardons board hearing this week.

Already, there are calls for lasting changes to the capital punishment system from Davis' advocates. Former President Jimmy Carter said he hopes "this tragedy will spur us as a nation toward the total rejection of capital punishment." Filrrrnaker Michael Moore posted a statement on his website calling for a boycott of Georgia.

The Rev. AI Sharpton, who visited Davis on death row, said he will push for a national ban on capital punishment in cases that rely on eyewitness testimony. Maryland passed such a law in 2009.

'We must not only mourn what happened to Troy Davis but take strong measures so that it does not happen again," Sharpton said.

The Davis execution comes at a time when death penalty decisions are under increased scrutiny. The number of executions has dropped by half over the last decade, from 98 in 1999 to 46 in 2010. Illinois abolished capital punishment in March and several other states, including California and Connecticut, are expected to consider similar proposals next year.

More than 3,200 U.S. inmates were on death row at the beginning of 2011 , according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Public support for capital punishment remains strong, according to several polls. This month, a CBS/NY 1imes poll found that 60 percent of those surveyed supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, w ith 27 percent opposed and 13 percent unsure. Gallup polls over the past two decades have shown slightly higher support, though Gallup found Americans to be closely divided when asked to choose between the death penalty and life imprisonment with no chance of parole.

Laura Moye of Amnesty International said she expects the Davis execution to be used to rally repeal movements across the country. She plans to meet with activists in Georgia over the next few days to plot out an attempt to banish capital punishment there.

"I'm meeting people who didn't really ever speak about the death penalty and now they are. They're hungry about the information and now they know," she said.

It's far from clear, however, whether the thousands who rallied and the hundreds of thousands who signed petitions on Davis' behalf will become any kind of political force. Organizers have announced few concrete steps, and legislative proposals have yet to take shape.

'The emotion of the moment passes and unfortunately so does the urgency to address these issues," said Bruce Barket, a New York criminal defense attorney who specializes in investigating wrongful

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convictions.

Spencer Lawton, the Savannah prosecutor who helped convict Davis, said the case shouldn't morph into a broader debate about capital punishment.

'Whether you are for or against the death penalty case is irrelevant in this case," he said. "You shouldn't be making Troy Davis into a vehicle for you to distort the truth, and that's what I think is going to happen. Whether you are for or against the death penalty, this has been a clear and fair and honest proceeding throughout. If you don't like the result, don't attack the proceeding falsely."

Follow Bluestein at http://www.twitter.comtbluestein. Associated Press writers Kate Brumback in Jackson, Ga. and Ray Henry in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Inmate to die tonight Few options left for supporters; NAACP seeks Obama's he lp

By Walter c. Jones Morris News Servh:e Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 ATLANTA - With legal appeals exhausted and clemency denied, death-penalty opponents are pinning their hopes on long-shot ways to stop Troy Davis' execution. Among their prospects to stop the execution are a strike by prison workers, a change of heart by a prosecutor, and judicial or presidential involvement. Davis lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection Tuesday, when Georgia's pardons board rejected his appeal for clemency. His execution is scheduled for 7 p.m. today. State and federal courts repeatedly upheld his conviction for the 1989 murder of off-duty police officer in Savannah. Davis' attorneys say he was convicted based on flawed testimony that has been largely recanted by witnesses.

As Davis' attorneys considered filing another appeal, his supporters planned vigils and rallies around the world. Nearly 1 million signed a petition seeking clemency, according to Amnesty International. Though all the last-ditch measures are unlikely, a presidential appeal to the parole board is the one avenue that has worked before. The NAACP is lobbying to get President Obama involved. "The president is the president," said Edward Dubose, the president of the NAACP's Georgia chapter. "If he chose to intervene, he could."

Though the president has no formal authority over state courts or state prisons, he could exercise his moral authority, said Donald E. Wilkes Jr., a professor at the Uni\ersity of Georgia law school. Previous presidents have been persuasive when they've asked governors to spare the life of an inmate, but Georgia's governors don't have that power. The power of clemency rests solely with the Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose five members are appointed by the governor, making them politically immune to presidential arm-twisting.

"1 don't think it would be politically wise for him (Obama) to do it," Wilkes said. "And there's not much likelihood they would comp ly since they don't have to." White House press secri tary Jay Carney was asked about the case Monday, but his vague answer suggested nothing is happening behind the scenes.

"As you know, the president has written that he believes the death penalty docs little to deter crime but that some crimes merit the ultimate punishment," Carney said. "Some of you may also recall that when the president was in the Illinois State Senate this was an issue where he worked across the aisle to find common ground." Carney said he hasn't spoken to Obama about the Davis case. Because Davis has lost all of his federal appeals, there are little legal grounds left. Davis supporters are calling on Chatham County District Attorney Larry Chisolm to block the execution, but the prosecutor said Tuesday that he's powerless to stop an execution order issued by a state Superior Court judge. Senate Democratic Whip Vincent Fort, of Atlanta, and Sara Totonchi, the executive director of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights , called for a mass prison strike. That isn't likely to prevent the execution because few workers are needed for one. "Each and every one of you are human beings with the power to refuse and resist participation in an immoral execution of a man who may be innocent,n Fort and Totonchi said in a statement. The Department of Corrections decl ined to comment, but the Attorney General's Office listed sections in state law making it illegal fo r state employees to strike.

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On Tuesday, Davis was spending his last quiet hours with friends, family and supporters, said Wende Gozan Brown, an Amnesty International staffer who visited him. "He said he's in good spirits, he's prayerful and he's at peace. But he said he will not stop fighting until he's taken his last breath," she said. Associated Press reports were used in this article.

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ON DEATH ROW: See a database with information about the Georgia inmates currently on death row at chronicle.augusta.com/deathrowinmates.

TUESDAY'S DECISION: Read the pardons board's fu ll statement about Troy Davis at augustachroniclc.com.

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Davis' case. puts Georgia on death-penalty map once aga1n I By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

9:54p.m. Tuesday, September 20, 2011

A landmark Georgia case brought about the abolition of capital punishment in the United States, and another landmark Georgia case reinstated it. But even with those monumental precedents on the books, no Georgia death sentence has drawn as rn.Jch international attention and controversy as the one scheduled Wednesday night for Troy Anthony Davis.

If Davis is put to death as scheduled, the legacy of this bitterly fought case could be the persistence of unyielding prosecutors -- and the victim's family -- who stared down worldwide criticism and innocence claims to see his execution carried out. It will also leave many wondering if the state executed an innocent man.

"Justice will be done and that's what we were fighting for," said Anneliese MacPhail, whose son was a 27-year-old Savannah police officer when he was gunned down 22 years ago. When asked if she thinks Davis killed her son, she answered, ''There is no doubt in my mind."

Davis sits on death row for the 1989 killing of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail, a former Army Ranger who was moonlighting on a security detail when he was shot three times before he could draw his handgun. Today marks the fourth execution date for Davis; on the three prior occasions, he was granted a stay.

A decision early Tuesday by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles rejecting pleas to halt Davis' execution appears to have all but sealed his fate. The board has the sole authority in Georgia to grant clemency to a conderrr1ed inmate.

Still, Davis' lawyers said they plan to file last-ditch appeals today claiming there remains new evidence that shows Davis was convicted and sentenced to death based on misleading evidence and testimony. "I am utterly shocked and disappointed at the failure of our justice system at all levels to correct a miscarriage of justice." Brian Kammer, one of Davis' attorneys, said.

Davis' supporters said they would ask Chatham County prosecutors to void the execution warrant. "This is a civil rights violation, a human rights violation in the worst way, " the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, said at a Tuesday press conference.

The five-member parole board did not disclose the breakdown of its vote. It also did not address questions involving Davis' innocence claims or say it was convinced beyond any doubt he is guilty.

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Instead, in a statement, the board said its members "have not taken their responsibility lightly and certainly understand the emotions attached to a death-penalty case." The board said it considered all the information and "deliberated thoroughly" before reaching its decision.

University of Georgia law professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. criticized the board for not addressing innocence claims that have attracted international concern and support for clemency from a former president, the pope, a former FBI director and a former chief justice of the state's highest court.

''The state of Georgia will now be exposed to criticism that it will go ahead and execute someone even when there is a question about guilt," Wilkes said. ''That's a tragedy for everybody, including the state of Georgia."

New York attorney George Kendall, who has litigated numerous capital cases, wondered if Georgia will someday regret having executed Davis. He noted that in recent years, a number of governors commuted death sentences because of lingering doubts about guilt.

"In a death penalty case, there should be no doubt about who did it," he said. 'We need to insist on guilt being very, very clear, not like this. For people who support the death penalty, this is not a good day for the death penalty." I

Since the 1991 trial, a number of key prosecution witnesses have recanted or backed off their testimony and others have come forward saying another man at the scene told them he was the actual trigger man. A vigorous public relations and social media campaign on Davis' behalf, buoyed by Amnesty International and the NAACP, spawned worldwide rallies for his cause.

Davis has mounted repeated challenges to his conviction and sentence, but courts never found there was enough evidence to overturn them. In 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in, directing a federal judge to consider Davis' innocence claims. But that judge, after hearing new evidence, determined that Davis had not clearly established he was an innocent man.

Former District Attorney Spencer Lawton, who prosecuted Davis, said the legacy of the case will be the injustice that MacPhail's family has been forced to endure.

''There are two Troy Davis cases," Lawton said. "The first is the case predicated on fact and presented repeatedly in court. That battle we have won at every turn because it is based on fact."

Lawton said he has respect for the opinions of those who familiarized themselves with the actual record of the case and still feel there is sufficient doubt to question the outcome. "I have no respect for those who know the facts and have chosen to distort them," he added.

Lawton acknowledged the prosecution lost the second Troy Davis case -- ''the public relations war"- at every turn. "I am afraid the integrity of the criminal justice system will suffer an unfair blow through the creation not of fact-based doubt but the appearance of doubt." he said. ''The appearance of doubt has taken on a life of its own -- as if it is doubt itself."

On Tuesday, members of the MacPhail family said they were anxious to see the death sentence carried out.

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Mark MacPhail Jr., now 22, was an infant when his father was killed and plans to witness the execution. "Most of the people who are focused on Davis are just against the death penalty - they know nothing about the case," he said. "It's painful to listen to these people put out out-and-out lies."

Staff writer Rhonda Cook contributed to this article.

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With legal appeals exhausted a11d clemency denied, death-pe nalty opponents are pinning t heir hopes on long-shot ways to stop Troy Da vis ' execution . runong t heir prospects to stop the execution a r e a strike by prison workers, a c hange of heart by a prosecutor, and judicial or presidential involvement .

Davis lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection Tuesday, when Georgia ' s pardons board rejected his appeal for clemency. His execution is scheduled for 7 p.m. today .

State a nd federa l courts repea tedly upheld his convi c t ion for t he 1.989 murder of off- duty p o l ice officer in Savannah . Davis ' attorneys s ay he wa s convi cted based o n fla wed t estimony t hat h as been l argely recanted by witnesses .

Though all the last-ditch measures are unlikely, a presidential appeal to t he parole board is the one avenue t hat has worked before . Th e NAACP i s lobbying to get President Obama involved .

" 'l'he president is the president," said Edward Dubose , t h e president o f t h e NAACP ' s Georgi a chapter . " If he chose to intervene, h e could."

Th oug h t h e p resident has no formal authority over s tate courts or state prisons , h~ coul d exercise his moral authority, said ~~n~_J a . s r a ~ t:.- ~e'"'rg....a aw s .,. .. Prev 1ous presidents have been p~rsuas~ve when they ' v e asKea-governors · ~ ~p~re the life of an inmate, but Georgia 's governors don ' t have that power .

The power o f clemency resls solely with t he Board of Pardons and Paroles , whoso five me mbers arc appoi nted by the governor, making the m po.litical ly immune to presidenLia l arm-twisting .

" I don ' t t hink il would be politically wise for· him (Obama) to do i l, " Wi l kes said. "And there ' s not much l i kelihood they would comply since they don' t have to."

White House press secretary J ay Carney was asked about the case Monday, but his vague answer suggested nothing is happening behind t he scenes .

"As you know, Lhe president has written that he believes the death penalty does little to deter cr·ime but that some crimes me rit t he ultimate puni shment ," Carney said. " Some of yo u may also recal J Lhat when the president was in the

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Carney said he hasn ' t spoken to Obama about t h e Davis case .

Because Oa vis has lost all of his feder~l appeals, there are little l egal grounds lefL .

Davis supporte i'=" s are calling on q1atham County District 7\t Lorney Larry Chisolm to block t he execution, but Lhe prosecutor said Tuesday that he 's powerless to stop an e xecution order issued by a state Superior Courl j udge.

Senate Democratic Whip Vincent Fort, of Atlanta, and Sara Totonchi, the e xecutive director of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights, called for a mass prison sLrike . That isn' t likely to prevent the execution beca u se few workers are needed for one .

" Each and every ono of you are human beings with t he p ower to refus e a nd resist p articipation in an immoral execution of a man who may be innocent," Fort and Totonchi said ln a statement.

The Department of Corrections declined to cornment , but t he Attorney General ' s Office listed sections in state law making it illegal for state employees to strike .

On Tuesday, Davi s was spending his last quiet hours wilh friends , family and supporters, said Wende Cozan Brown, an Amnesty Inter national staffer .

"H e said he ' s ~ n good spirits, h e's prayerful and he 's at peace . Bu t he said h e wi lL n ot s top f ighting until h e' s taken his last b reath," she said.

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Update: A Georgia state court judge and the Georgia Supreme Court have both declined to stay the Davis execution, meaning that the Supreme Court represents his last chance for relief, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Georgia is on course to execute Troy Davis this evening , following yesterday's decision by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to deny clemency.

The question now is whether there are any legal options open to Davis to try to ward off the execution, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight.

The short answer is that there are some legal moves open to Davis, but he faces long odds of winning a reprieve.

To recap, Davis, 42, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 for murdering police officer Mark McPhail. The conviction rested largely on eyewitness testimony, and several witnesses who originally testified that Davis committed the crime have since recanted or altered their testimony. But numerous state and federal courts have reviewed Davis's claims that he is innocent, and the courts have declined to overturn the conviction.

Davis can file new petitions in state and federal court, including the Supreme Court, lawyers said.

But judges are loath to reopen death-penalty cases at the 11th hour, University of Georgia law professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. told the Law Slog. "State and federal courts take the position that you can't file a [new] petition in which you raise claims that you did previously raise or that you could have raised ," he said.

This morning, Davis's lawyers filed a brief in state court claiming that new ballistics evidence has surfaced, which allegedly contradicts the trial testimony of a firearms expert who testified at Davis's murder trial. That and other alleged new evidence, the brief claims, "reveals Mr. Davis's capital conviction and death sentence to be based on false, misleading and materially inaccurate evidence."

The Law Slog has sought comment from the Chatham County (Georgia) District Attorney's Office. which prosecuted the case

Beyond court petitions, Davis could also ask the Georgia pardons board to reconsider its decision to

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deny clemency, Wilkes said, but he doubted the board would do so. "In my judgment, there are no judicial options left to Davis and there are no executive options," he said. "At 7 p.m , you can be sure he'll be strapped to the gurney, and I'd expect that by 7·15 pm, Troy Davis will be dead."

That sa 1a . Wilkes believes the state should commute Davis's sentence to life without parole. "I think this is a clear case where Troy Davis's guilt is not certain," he said. "It may be probable or even very probable, but it's not certain and I believe no one should be put to death unless evidence of their guilt IS certain."

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Troy Davis: How did we get here?

By ALLEN G. BREED and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press

Did Troy Anthony Davis deserve to be put on Georgia's death row? The answer depends on one's faith in the system and its many procedural hoops.

Trial witnesses recanted what they'd sworn to police, and jurors even questioned their verdict. Activists, some of them death-penalty supporters, protested by the thousands that he was innocent - or at least that guilt was hopelessly shrouded in reasonable doubt.

But do those "supposed recantations," asks law professor Michael Mears, constitute a mountain of evidence? Or were they, as prosecutors claim, just a moleh ill , fabricated by death penalty opponents?

A close review of Davis' two-decade legal odyssey sheds some light, if not a clear-cut resolution.

It suggests that a good deal of the witnesses' hedging on what they'd seen the night of the murder was not new- that jurors had heard it at trial. Davis' attorneys missed "opportunities" that might have changed the outcome of appeals.

Finally, executive clemency is meant to be a guard against unfair trials and shoddy defense work - but that fail-safe failed here, critics say.

Mears, an associate professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, feels that Davis didn't belong on death row for the 1989 slaying of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. But after reading much of the transcript and the "so-called affidavits," he concedes that a reasonable jury could have found him guilty of murder.

"I don't know of any other way that the system could have processed Troy Anthony Davis's case other than the way it has," Mears says.

A review of the case starts at the crime scene.

MacPhail was off-duty but working security at a Greyhound bus station the night of Aug. 19, 1989, when he rushed to the aid of a homeless man who was being beaten. The 27 -year-old officer was shot twice - once each in the face and chest - and died in a Burger King parking lot.

Davis, 20, who had dropped out of high school to help care for an ill sibling , turned himself in four days later.

During the trial, Davis testified that he was with Sylvester Coles when his companion got in

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a scuffle with Larry Young over a beer. He said Coles began beating the man , and that Young's calls for help attracted MacPhail.

Davis testified he started walking away, then began running when he saw a police officer heading toward them.

"I didn't see the shooting, you know," Davis testified. His attorney, Robert Falligant, tried to persuade jurors that Coles was the real killer.

But Coles testified that it was Davis who had been arguing with Young , and that Davis hit the man in the head with a gun. Coles said he ran when he saw a police officer approaching, and then heard gunshots. He told jurors he never saw the shooter.

Coles, who has never been charged in the case, still lives in Savannah. No one answered the door at his apartment when an Associated Press reporter knocked this week. He has not changed his testimony.

There was no DNA evidence implicating Davis. No fingerprints. Not even a gun.

There were casings from bullets of the caliber that killed MacPhail. An expert from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation linked them to shells found at the scene of a non-fatal shooting a few hours earlier.

But firearms examiner Roger Parian could only say that the .38-caliber shell casings appeared to have come from the same gun.

"In this particular case, I couldn't unequivocally say it was the same gun," he testified.

Davis was convicted of both shootings. For MacPhail's slaying, he received the death penalty.

Protesters have made much of the notion that several key witnesses in Davis' 1991 trial recanted or significantly altered their statements, and that much of that has not been allowed into the record. But a review of the trial transcript supports what prosecutors have long held: That several of the these "new" statements largely rehash doubts and second thoughts the witnesses had already voiced in front of the trial jury 20 years ago.

Darrell Collins, who was with Davis and Coles the night of the shooting, signed an affidavit in 2002 saying police pressured him into pointing the finger at Davis. But the trial transcript shows he'd made that same assertion on the witness stand. The jury heard Collins back off a statement he'd given to police implicating Davis in the shooting.

"I told you that I didn't see Troy shoot at them, or shoot that night, and I didn't see him with a gun that night," Collins testified.

In another affidavit, witness Antoine Williams alleged he signed a police statement identifying Davis as the killer - adding a description of Davis' clothing - even though he couldn't read . But at trial, Williams testified that he was sitting in a car with tinted windows, making it hard to distinguish clothing colors, and that he was only "60 percent" sure Davis was the gunman.

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"I was definitely not sure that was the guy, because I was nervous and I was watching the gun," Williams testified.

Young , the homeless man who was pistol whipped, signed a 2002 affidavit saying he never got a good look at the shooter or what he was wearing. At the trial , Young was unable to ID Davis as the shooter.

"I really couldn't get no visual," he said. "I could about distinguish the colors of, you know, the clothing , but I couldn't, you know, see no faces."

At the trial , Harriet Murray, a friend of Young 's, emphatically identified Davis as the officer's killer, testifying: "When he was shooting the police, he had a little smile on his face, a little smirky-like smile on his face."

In 2002, Murray signed a statement prepared by Davis' attorneys that gives a much vaguer eyewitness account, with no mention of Davis being the gunman.

During the trial, Dorothy Ferrell identified Davis in the courtroom as the shooter, saying she saw him from across the street and was "real sure, positive sure, that that is him."

But in December 2000, Ferrell signed a handwritten statement saying she was telling police what they wanted to hear, because she was on parole for a shoplifting conviction and feared returning to prison. "I don't know which of the guys did the shooting , because I didn't see that part," Ferrell wrote.

Jeffery Sapp testified at the trial that Davis confessed to him hours after the shooting - though he told the jury he'd made up part of a prior statement to police when he'd said Davis told him he shot the officer a second time to make sure he "finished the job."

Years later, Sapp signed an affidavit saying he'd fabricated the entire confession.

So did jailhouse informant Kevin McQueen. In jail when Davis was arrested, McQueen testified that Davis told him he'd shot the officer. But McQueen took it all back in a signed 1996 affidavit, saying: "The truth is that Troy never confessed to me or talked to me about the shooting of the officer."

Witness Steve Sanders told the jury he saw the shooting from inside a van and was certain Davis pulled the trigger. But before the trial, when asked about the suspects, he had told police: "I wou ldn't recognize them again except for their cloth ing."

Based on what was presented at trial , Davis never should have been sentenced to death, said his attorney, Stephen Marsh.

"Such incredibly flawed eyewitness testimony should never be the basis for an execution," he said Wednesday. "To execute someone under these circumstances would be unconscionable."

The assertions by Davis' legal team got the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time in a half century, justices sent the case back to a lower court for a hearing on evid ence that Davis's attorneys insisted would prove his innocence.

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During the hearing , Davis' attorneys did not present Coles, something University of Georgia law professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. calls "the most astonishing blundering and goofing that I've ever heard of in a post-conviction case." U.S. District Judge William T. Moore ch ided Davis' defense for not calling Coles.

"Because of that mistake, the trial judge would not allow them to introduce a lot of the witness recantation evidence," says Wilkes, whose specialties include post-conviction relief, criminal procedure and writs of habeas corpus. "There were a number of witnesses who wanted to testify that tb.is other man had admitted that he was the one who was th e killer."

In an August 2010 ruling that made him a lightning rod for outrage, Moore concluded Davis' attorneys had failed.

"Ultimately, while Mr. Davis's new evidence casts some additional, minimal doubt on his conviction, it is largely smoke and mirrors," he ruled. "The vast majority of the evidence at trial remains intact, and the new evidence is largely not credible or lacking in probative value."

Denny LeBoeuf, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's capital punishment project, says Moore set the bar too high, essentially requiring Davis to prove he was innocent.

"Most people couldn't prove that the day after the homicide, let alone 20 years later," she says. "And it's not the way our system works- for a good reason."

Wilkes feels the judge committed an "institutional mistake" by not granting a continuance and allowing more time for Coles to be subpoenaed. But Mears- an outspoken foe of capital punishment who even filed a brief on Davis' behalf- says Judge Moore's hands were largely tied.

The "supposed recantations" and "so-called affidavits," as he called then, were either unsworn or included inadmissible hearsay. Aside from offering Coles immunity, there was little else he could have done without becoming "a part of the adversarial process." "So I think that, fo ~ better or worse, the system has afforded Troy Davis a tremendous number of opportunities," he says.

Death penalty proponents say that even if a trial and subsequent appeals are unfair, there's always a fail-safe - executive clemency. But Wilkes argues that even that has failed in this case.

In its July 2007 order suspending Davis' execution, the state parole board stated that it would "not allow an execution to proceed in this State unless and until its members are convinced that there is no doubt as to the guilt of the accused." Wilkes says the board, with its "brief, little, pablum-like statement" denying clemency, failed to live up to its own standards.

"No reasonable person can look at this case and say Troy Davis' guilt is certain," he says. "It may be probable. tt may be highly likely. But his guilt is not certain."

LeBoeuf says the "global question" is not whether Davis or his attorneys successfully

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navigated a "procedural thicket of technicalities," but whether there was "a strong evidentiary basis to doubt Troy Davis' guilt."

"And the answer to that, for any fair-minded person, is yes," she says.

If this case has proven anything, Mears says, it's that the courts are ill-equipped to handle such recanted testimony. It has also shown the power of too many people with too little firsthand knowledge weighing in on matters of this gravity.

"What's happened in this case is it has moved out of the courtroom and into the arena of public opinion, and I think that's always a dangerous arena to try a criminal case, one way or another."

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With the Troy Davis Execution hours away questions arise regarding his innocence

With the Troy Davis execution hours away, his attorneys and endless supporters are counting on Twitter to launch a social tsunami across the globe informing all those who will listen of the injustice that shall be served tonight.

Sentenced in 1991, Troy Davis received the death penalty after being found guilty of murdering Georgia police officer Mark McPhail. Troy Davis execution sentence was based largely on eyewitness testimony, which is not regarded as substantial evidence and in fact has led to many individuals on death row receiving new trials. (DeathPenaltylnfo.org) 1

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According to the WSJ Law Blog several of the eyewitness accounts against Troy Davis, have since been recanted or altered, however neither the state or federal courts are agreeing to overturn the conviction.

Perhaps the power ·of Twitter will save Troy Davis, although University of Law Professor, Donald E. ilkes r. tol d the WSJ Law Blog. ··State and federal courts take the position that you can' file a ~ new! petition in which you raise claims that you did previously raise or that you could have raised." he said ... "In my judgment. there are no judicial options left to Davis and there are no executive options." he said.'" At 7 p.m., you can be sure he'll be

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strapped to the gurney, and I'd expect that by 7:15pm, Troy Davis will be dead."

Back in June the NY Times released a story capturing the life of another death row inmate, whose fate ran a course similar to Troy Davis, although not exactly as down to the wire as this case. In comparison to the sentence for Troy Davis execution, Randall Adams spent only 12 years on death row until he was released after a filmmaker-uncovered evidence by the name of Err~ l Morris. Fueled on the belief that Randall Adams was an innocent man Morris created t he Tbin Blue Line, a documentary exposing the evidence that would prove the corruption within that specific Texas Court.

Arguments have arisen against the Troy Davis execution arguing he was the perfect scapegoat, not a criminal. Looking at the picture that has been painted, Troy Davis is the African American that shot a white cop in the south, he deserved to be sentenced to death, and justice is served. Wrong.

In the case of Randall Adams, Morris argued and identified that the teenager who provided eyewitness testimony, David Ray Harris, was in fact the guilty party. Morris argued that Harris was overlooked as a suspect because he was too young for the death penalty and therefore not even in the judge's sight.

"With so much ~ vidence seeming to suggest Mr. Harriss guilt, many Texans believed prosecutors had gone after Mr. Adams and not Mr. Harris because J\1r. Harris, who was 16, was too young to be executed under Texas law. In the murder ofa police officer, the theory went, prosecutors almost always seek the most severe punishment. " (NY Tr.mes)

People gather to be for Georgia to stop the Troy Davis Execution

Is that what the State of Georgia is doing in the case of Troy Davis? Seeking someone to punish in order to s.ay that it's not right to kill a police officer? Well what does this say about our law system when the majority of major death penalty sentences have been contested? It seems that way when you sentence a man based on eyewitness accounts, of which were further tampered with when police re-enacted what happened. If the police officials who questioned those four witnesses that day knew what happened than why did they question if Troy Davis did it or not?

"The New York t imes on the Troy Davis execution Today, Georgia plans to execute Troy Davisfor the 1989 murder of a police officer. ''The Georgia pardon and parole board~· refusal logrant him clemency is appalling in light of developments after his conviction: reports about police misconduct, the recantation oftestimony by a string of

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eyewitnesses and reports from other witnesses that another person had confessed to the crime, "writes The New York Times editorial board. " (The Atlantic Wire)

LiveScience raised an interesting point, claiming scientific research supports that 30% of information from an eyewitness account is not right. I lowever in the case of Troy Davis, no one seems to Its. t' en.

AJC reports thaJ Troy Davis has been down this road now three times prior, however this time its different. Troy Davis and his lawyers pinned their hopes on the sole authority in Georgia to commute the death sentence, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, only to receive their rejection Tuesday. With many opinions surrounding the Troy Davis execution sentence, one can only hope Georgia realizes they are making a mistake before its too late.

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N. 7 p.m. ET today, Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in the state of Georgia. Davis' case has garnered international attention and he's been at this point three times before. As Tlte Atlanta Journal Constilut•on rep011s. on one occasion. the state stayed his execution two-hours before it was set to take place.

If you're not familiar, Davis was convicted of I he 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer. But his conviction was based on eye witness accounts and no DNA evidence. Through the years. some of the witnesses have walked back their testimony and doubts have emerged about the case.

So much so that the Supreme Court gave Davis a chance to prove his innocence. The AP repons that was the "first time

People hold placard$ of right• group Amn0$1y ntemational dlting a il had done so for a death row inmate in at least 50 years, demoostration in Paris on wednesday: but he couldn1 convince a judge to grant him a new trial.''

High profile Americans have also taken up Davis' cause. Former President Jimmy Carter wrote a letter on Davis' behalf. And former Rep. Bob Barr. a pro-death-penalty Republican. has called for a stay. "Even for death penalty supporters such as myself, the level of doubt inherent In this case is troubling," he told the AP.

The family of the victim, Mark MacPhail, is convinced Davis is the killer.

Legal expens believe the case has reached the end of the road. Today. reports USA Today. the Georgia pardons board rejected an appeal and a Georgia judge refused to hall the execution. Here Is hO\Y a Un\.versity of Geqrgfa law professor Donald E Wilkes Jr twd 11 oul to the W<.!/1 Srr

' In my judgment, there are no judicial oplrons lett to Davis and there are no executive ~tions." he said. "N. 7 p.m., you can be sure he'll be strapped to the gurney, and rd expect that by 7:15pm, Troy Davis will be dead"

That said, Wilkes believes the state should commute Davis's sentence to life without parole "I think this is a clear case where Troy Davis's guil\ is not certain," he said. "It may be probable or even very probable, but it's not certain and I believe no one should be put to death unless evidence of their guilt is certain.•

The Atlanta Journal Constitution feports that with saletlite trucks and a mass of protesters. the scene outside the prison in Jackson, Georgia, where Davis is scheduled to l>e executed. is "unlike any previous executions in past years.· Ask a Lawver 2llliD..~ The paper reports on another proL st in Savannah: 27 t.awye,., Online Now Answer Your Questions In Minutes. In Savannah this morning . about 18 supporters gathered outside Chatham County District Attorney Larry Chisolm's office to present eAn5wer.. co m/Law 240,000 signatures of people asking for clemency. Organizer Sister Jackie Griffith said the group hopes Chisolm can use any influence he may have to urge Chatham Superior Court Judge Penny Freesemann lo halt the execution.

·we believe anyone who has power should use it for justice," said Griffith, a Catholic nun who has worked to stop Davis' execution since 1998. She said she was drawn to- the case because she believes all life is sacred. "whether it's a guilty life or an innocenl life."

"We're very prayerful and dogged n our efforts. .. we're always hopeful, but hope comes wilh reality," she added.

Holding a sign that read "Justice fqr Troy Davis. Too Much Doubt," supporters Denise Chaney and \tlldara Well cllatted about the case. referencing the man who was with Davis around the time of the shooting. Sylvester "Redd" Coles, who is rurrored to have admitted in recent years to have murdered Officer Mark N.len MacPhail.

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Friday, September 23, 201 1 Legal experts shed light on Davis' path to chamber Review of case suggests jurors heard eyewitnesses' doubts at trial and that condemned man's atlorneys missed opportunities to change outcome By Allen G. Breed and Russ Bynum, Associated Press writer

Did Troy Anthony Davis deserve to be put on Georgia's death row? The answer depends on one's faith in the system and its many procedural hoops.

Trial witnesses recanted what they'd sworn to police, and jurors even questioned their verdict. Activists, some of them death penalty supporters, protested by the thousands that he was innocent~r at least that guilt was hopelessly shrouded in reasonable doubt.

But do those "supposed recantations," asks law professor Michael Mears, constitute a mountain of evidence? Or were they, as prosecutors claim, just a molehill, fabricated by death penalty

opponents?

A close review of Davis' two-decade legal odyssey sheds some light, if not a clear-cut resolution.

Finally, executive clemency is meant to be a guard against unfair trials and shoddy defense work- but that fa il-safe failed here, critics say.

"I don't know of any other way that the system could have processed Troy Anthony Davis' case other than the way it has," Mears says.

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A review of the case starts at the crime scene.

MacPhail was off-duty but working security at a Greyhound bus station the night of Aug. 19, 1989, when he rushed to the aid of a homele ss man who was being beaten. The 27-year-old officer was shot twice--once each in the face and chest-and died in a Burger King parking lot.

Davis, 20, who had dropped out of high school to help care for an ill sibling, turned himself in four days later.

During the trial, Davis testified that he was with Sylvester Coles when his companion got in a scuffle with Larry Young over a beer. He said Coles began beating the man, and that Young's calls for help attracted MacPhail.

Davis testified he started walking away, then began running when he saw a police officer heading toward them.

"I didn't see the shooting, you know," Davis testified. His attorney, Robert Falligant, tried to persuade jurors that Coles was the real killer.

But Coles testified that it was Davis who had been arguing \\~th Young, and that Davis hit the man in the head with a gun. Coles said he ran when he saw a police officer approaching, and then heard gunshots. He told jurors he never saw the

shooter.

Coles, who has never been charged in the case, still lives in Savannah. No one answered the door at his apartment when an Associated Press reporter knocked this week. He has not changed his

testimony.

There was no DNA evidence implicating Davis. No fmgerprints. Not even a gun.

But firearms examiner Roger Parian could only say that the .38-caliber shell casings appeared to have come from the same gun.

"In this particular case, I couldn't unequivocally say it was the same gun," he testified.

Davis was convicted of both shootings. For MacPhail's slaying, he received the death penalty.

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several of these "new" statements largely rehash doubts and second thoughts the witnesses had already voiced in front of the trial jury 20 years ago.

Darrell Collins, who was with Davis and Coles the night of the shooting, signed an affidavit in 2002 saying police pressured him into point ing the fmger at Davis. But the trial transcript shows he'd made that same assertion on the witness stand. The jury heard Collins back off a statement he'd given to police implicating Davis in the shooting.

"I told you that I didn't see Troy shoot at them, or shoot that night, and I didn't see him with a gun that night," Collins testified.

In another affidavit, witness Antoine Williams alleged he signed a police statement identifying Davis as the killer- adding a description of Davis' clothing-even though he couldn't read. But at trial, Williams testified that he was sitting in a car with tinted windows, making it hard to distinguish clothing colors, and that he was only "60 percent" sure Davis was the gunman.

"I was defmitely not sure that was the guy, because I was nervous and I was watching the gun," Williams testified.

Young, the homeless man who was pistol whipped, signed a 2002 affidavit saying he never got a good look at the shooter or what he was wearing. At the trial, Young was unable to ID Davis as the shooter.

''I really couldn't get no visual," he said. "I could about distinguish the colors of, you know, the clothing, but I couldn't, you know, see no faces."

At the trial, Harriet Murray, a friend of Young's, emphatically identified Davis as the officer's killer, testifying: "When he was shooting the police, he had a little smile on his face, a little srnirky-like smile on his face."

In 2002, Murray signed a statement prepared by Davis' attorneys that gives a much vaguer eyewitness account, with no mention of Davis being the gunman.

During the trial, Dorothy Ferrell identified Davis in the courtroom as the shooter, saying she saw him from across the street and was "real sure, positive sure, that that is him."

Jeffery Sapp testified at the trial that Davis confessed to him hours after the shooting- though he told the jury he'd made up part of a prior statement to police when he'd said Davis told him he shot the officer a second time to make sure he "fmished the job."

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Years later, Sapp signed an affidavit saying he'd fabricated the entire confession.

clothing. ''

Based on what was presented at trial, Davis never should have been sentenced to death, said his attorney, Stephen

Marsh.

"Such incredibly flawed eyewitness testimony should never be the basis for an execution," he said Wednesday. "To execute someone under these circumstances would be unconscionable."

The assertions by Davis' legal team got the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time in a half century, justices sent the case back to a lower court for a hearing on evidence that Davis' attorneys insisted would prove his innocence.

During the hearing, Davis' attorneys did not present Coles, something University of Georgia la\v professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. calls "the most astonishing blundering and goofmg that I've ever heard of in a post-conviction case." U.S. District Judge William T. Moore chided Davis' defense for not calling Coles.

"Because of that mistake, the trial judge would not allow them to introduce a lot of the witness recantation evidence," says Wilkes, whose specialties include post-conviction relief, criminal procedure and writs of habeas corpus. "There were a number of v.~tnesses who wanted to testify that this other man had admitted that he was the one who was the

killer."

In an August 2010 ruling that made him a lightning rod for outrage, Moore concluded Davis' attorneys had failed.

"Ultimately, while Mr. Davis' new evidence casts some additional, minimal doubt on his conviction, it is largely smoke and mirrors," he ruled. "The vast majority of the evidence at trial remains intact, and the new evidence is largely not credible or lacking in probative value."

Denny LeBoeuf, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's capital punishment project, says Moore set the bar too high, essentially

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requiring Davis to prove he was innocent.

"Most people couldn't prove that the day after the homicide, let alone 20 years later," she says. "And it's not the way our system works-for a good reason."

Wilkes feels the judge committed an "institutional mistake" by not granting a continuance and allowing more time for Coles to be subpoenaed. But Mears- an outspoken fo e of capital punishment who even flied a brief on Davis' behalf-says Judge Moore's hands were largely

tied.

"So I think that, for better or worse, the system has afforded Troy Davis a tremendous number of opportunities," he says.

Death penalty proponents say that even if a trial and subsequent appeals are unfair, there's always a fail-safe-executive clemency. But Wilkes argues that even that has failed in this case.

standards.

"No reasonable person can look at this case and say Troy Davis' guilt is certain," he says. "It may be probable. It may be highly likely. But his guilt is not certain."

LeBoeuf says the "global question" is not whether Davis or his attorneys successfully navigated a "procedural thicket of technicalities," but whether there was "a strong evidentiary basis to doubt Troy Davis' guilt."

"And the answer to that, for any fair-minded person, is yes," she says.

If this case has proven anything, Mears says, it's that the courts are ill-equipped to handle such recanted testimony. It has also sho·wn the power of too many people with too little firsthand knowledge weighing in on matters of this gravity.

"What's happened in this case is it has moved out of the courtroom and into the arena of public opinion, and I think that's always a dangerous

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arena to try a criminal case, one way or another."

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Friday, September 23, 2011 Bar committee OKs rule change Public defenders in same circuit would be allowed to represent co-defendants under proposed amendment By Kathleen Baydala Joyner, Staff Reporter

The State Bar of Georgia's Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a rule change that would allow public defenders in the same circuit to represent co-defendants unless specific conflicts of interest are identified.

The proposed amendment to the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct on imputed disqualification, also known as Rule 1.1 0, states: "(d) A lawyer representing a client of a public defender office shall not be disqualified under this rule because of the representation by the office of another client in the same or a substantially related matter unless there is a conflict as determined by Rules 1.7, 1.8(f) or 1.9," which determine conflicts of interest, according to Bar President Kenneth L. Shigley.

Backers of the amendment hope it serves as a compromise in a debate that has burned hot since Apri12010, when the bar approved a formal advisory opinion prohibiting intra-circuit representation of indigent criminal co-defendants. Critics of that opinion, which is pending review by the state Supreme Court, said it would result in higher costs for the cash-strapped indigent defense system as more expensive outside lawyers would need to be hired to resolve conflicts.

But some lawyers questioned whether the proposed amendment would have any significant effect.

On Wednesday, Shigley said the new rules change allowing intracircuit representation of co-defendants should help public defender offices handling cases with multiple defendants where there is only a potential conflict.

"The proposed amendment to Rule of Professional Conduct 1.10 is a measured, moderate approach to representation of multiple defendants in the public defender context," Shigley said in a written statement. "It recognizes the need for practical flexibility in administration of the statewide public defender system, without diminishing lawyers' ethical standards or defendants' rights to vigorous, conflict-free representation."

But Russell C. Gabriel, director of the University of Georgia SChooCof Law's Criminal Defense· Clinic and member of the bar's Indigent

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Defense Committee, said Thursday he doesn't think the amendment's effect on how public defender offices handle conflict cases will be different from that of the formal advisory opinion, which he supports.

"It appears that this amendment afftrrns the existing rule with respect to co-defendants and other conflicts," said Gabriel, who was among 76 lawyers to sign a letter urging the Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee not to approve a change that would exempt public defenders from conflict rules. "Though representation of co-defendants by a single attorney or law firm is not the better practice, it is not explicitly prohibited by the rules. It has always required a fact-specific inquiry."

Still, Gabriel said he hopes the proposed amendment "would allow the bar to put this issue to rest."

The proposed amendment will go to the bar's Executive Committee, which is scheduled to meet on Oct. 6 in Macon. Then, it would need the approval of the bar's Board of Governors, which will convene on Oct. 29 at Jekyll Island, and finally the state Supreme Court before going into effect.

The state high court agreed to review the formal advisory opinion last year, but in August it delayed any decision until January. Members of the bar, as well as the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, began publicly discussing a rules change that would have exempted pu blic defenders from the conflict rules applied to private firms late this summer.

Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Director W. Travis Sakrison spoke against the formal advisory opinion during Wednesday's hearing of the Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee.

According to Sakrison, the formal advisory opinion would require all public defender offices to divest themselves immediately of all co-defendants in cases where there may be a potential conflict. That rule would balloon the number of conflict cases and drain the public defender system of resources, he said. The estimated cost of fmding new conflict counsel would have required the GPDSC to ask the Legislature for millions more in its budget, he said.

Instead, many circuit public defenders wanted their offices to have the ability to represent co-defendants up until the point an actual conflict arose, as long as proper ethical screens, such as separate computers and filing areas, were in place the entire time. And then, if there were an actual conflict, the public defender office could retain one of the co-defendants.

But supporters of the formal advisory opinion said the opinion supported the existing rules, which already outline conflicts and are meant to ensure adequate representation of indigent criminal defendants- a statement the Disciplinary Rules and Procedures Committee chairman, John G. Haubenreich, agreed with on Wednesday.

"The formal advisory opinion just recognizes what is the present Rule 1.1 0; it doesn't change anything.... Right now, anyone who is not complying with it, in my opinion, is subject to discipline," he said.

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Supporters of the fonnal advisory opinion also criticized the original proposed change exempting public defenders from conflict rules, arguing it would create a two-tiered system ofjustice , one for the rich, one for the poor.

More than a dozen members of the bar's Indigent Defense Committee along with state legislators, past bar presidents and criminal defense attorneys, sent a letter Tuesday to the rules committee urging its members not to recommend any changes to the conflict rules that would exempt public defenders. (The Indigent Defense Committee has not taken any official position on the amendment.)

The letter also argued that allowing public defenders within the same circuit to represent co-defendants carried the same risks for conflict s as for private firms; that ethical screens will not adequately reduce the risk of defenders in the same office accidentally sharing confidential material; and that intracircuit representation of multiple defendants will not yield significant cost savings to the state or the statewide indigent defense system.

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The Whitfield Healthcare Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Hamilton Health Care System, announces the appointment of 10 new trustees to the foundation board. Chaired by Robert Smalley, partner with the McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle & Fordham law firm, the foundation's mission is to encourage charitable gifts that support and advance the quality of health care provided by Hamilton Health Care System and its affiliates.

Established in 1975, the foundation is guided by a board of 75 trustees serving on one of six committees- Annual Support, Business Relations, Planned Giving, Signature Gifts, Special Prospects or Trust.

The Annual Support Committee, which solicits new donors and gifts on an annual basis through programs such as Westcott Associate, Hamilton Club, Love Light Trees, Golf Invitational, Speedy Recovery and Swing for Wellness, also sponsors various community outreach educational programs including Brown Bag Luncheon, Camp Sweet Control and Wellspring for Women. New to the committee are Blake Adcock, David Blevins, and Nancy Crutchfield.

Donald "Blake" Adcock, president of Adcock Financial Group, holds a bachelor of business administration from the University of Georgia in risk management and insurance. He is a member and past president of the board of directors of the Carpet City Rotary Club and received the John Hinkle Club Service Award in 2007. He has been a Westcott Associate of the Whitfield Healthcare Foundation since 2007.

Adcock has served as past president of the Cherokee Area Estate Planning Council, as a member of the executive committee of the Dalton Quarterback Club, as a member of First United Methodist Church's Staff Parish Relations Committee and with Special Olympics of Whitfield/Murray.

Adcock is a member of First United Methodist Church of Dalton. He and his wife, Jill , have two daughters, Emily and Sarah.

David J. Blevins, attorney at law, received a bachelor of arts from Carson-Newman College an d juris doctorate from the University of Georgia. He serves on the executive committee of the Whitfield County Republican Party and was recently appointed by Gov.r Nathan Deal to serve on the State Personnel Board. Blevins and his wife, Sheri, have three daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Sarah Kate. They attend Grove Level Baptist Church.

Nancy Jett Crutchfield received a bachelor of science from the University of Tennessee in early childhood education, and a master in education from West Georgia College. Crutchfield is currently a homemaker and is married to Drennon "Crutchie" Crutchfield Jr. They attend First United Methodist Church and have two daughters, Lawrence and Lele, and one son-in-law, Mitchell.

Joining the current roster of the Business Relations Committee are Gary Asbury, Brandon Combs and Tim Jones. The committee serves as liaison to the business and professional sector of the community and the medical center and cultivates financial support through the Hamilton Business Alliance.

Gary Asbury is returning for a second term as a foundation trustee. Asbury is president of

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Professional Testing Laboratory and received a master of business administration from the University of Nebraska. He serves as vice chairman/secretary of the American Society of Testing Materials and received the Joseph J. Smrekar Award for "exemplary service to the carpet industry." Asbury attends Rock Bridge Community Church, and he and his wife, Angela, have five children, Heather, Matthew, Chaston, Jacob and Amelia.

Robert "Brandon" Combs received a bachelor of business administration from Georgia Southern University and has his own business, Brandon Combs State Farm Insurance. He is a member of the Carpet City Rotary Club and attends Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. Combs is married to Amee and they have one daughter, Analea.

Timothy L. Jones is the owner of G&S Office Supply and graduated from North Whitfield High School and Jacksonville State University. He served as secretary of the Dalton Optimist Club, vice chairman of the North Georgia Electric Operation Round-Up, and is a member of the Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce. Jones attends Grove Level Baptist Church and he and his wife, Rebecca, have two daughters, Amanda and Whitney.

William "Tate" O'Gwin joins the Planned Giving Committee which assists in implementing programs that will produce financial support for the foundation in the major areas of planned giving, such as wills and bequests, life income agreements, life insurance, annuities and charitable remainder trusts.

O'Gwin is a financial advisor with O'Gwin Investment Planning Inc. He received his bachelor of business administration from the University of Georgia in finance. Tate is a board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Georgia Mountains and is the incoming secretary for the Kiwanis Club of Dalton. He is married to Katie.

The Special Prospects Committee, which is responsible for the procurement of individuals for membership in the Westcott Fellowship giving program, adds Dorothy Smith Boring, Dr. J. Sherwood Jones Jr. and Dr. William Lafayette McDaniel Jr.

Dottie Boring is a past instructor at Dalton State College. She attended Mississippi State for her undergrad and masters and received an education specialist degree from Auburn University. Boring is a member of the Alex de Tocqueville Society and she and her husband Ken sponsor the Kenneth and Dottie Boring nursing scholarships at Dalton State College, she is also a past board member of the Dalton Cotillion. Boring attends First Presbyterian Church of Dalton and she and Ken have two daughters, Leah and Laura.

Sherwood Jones, a retired internal medicine physician, received his medical degree from Emory University. He served his residency in internal medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital and received a Fellowship in Cardiology from Emory Hospital. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Dalton, serves on the boards of RossWoods Adult Day Services chairman; Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia, Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership, Alzheimer's Association of Northwest Georgia, Doc-Up , Hamilton Long Term Care, Dalton Senior Housing and volunteers in the Medicaid clinic at the Whitfield County Health Department.

Jones' awards include Phi Beta Kappa; Georgia Chapter of American College of Physicians Laureate Award; Rotary Club of Dalton Vocational Excellence Award and Community

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Service Award . He is a deacon at First Baptist Church of Dalton and he and his wife, Jean, have three children, Sherwood Ill, Carlton and Ashley.

Bill McDaniel received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and retired as a family physician from Dalton Family Practice. He serves on the advisory boards of Hamilton Long Term Care and Royal Oaks and his community activities include continuing to work part-time, the DEO Clinic and Dalton First United Methodist Church's golf committee, VVWIJ committee and mission committee. McDaniel and his wife, Maryanne, have three children, William Jeffrey, Daryl Lee and Patricia Diane.

Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Chairman Robert Smalley expressed his appreciation for the willingness of these new trustees to serve as representatives of the found ation with in our community. "We, as members of the Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Board, endeavor to help provide the financial support needed to ensure Hamilton's ready response to the changing health care environment. We rea lize that philanthropic support is critical to the future of health care. I look forward to serving with these new trustees as we work together toward this goal," Smalley said. BE s EC

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I would suggest that they think long and hard about it. It seems that our country already has plenty of lawyers, and the job market for lawyers is pretty slim right now. However, if they have their heart set on becoming a lawyer, I would suggest that they focus on classes that require a lot of reading and writing Law school requires students to read a plethora of books. So much so, that at my orientation at UGA's law school, they sent an optometrist to warn us about our impending eyesight loss.

As a mother with a young child, how do you find balance in your life?

Right now, I call myself a "stay-at-home-lawyer." I am blessed that I may stay with my 6-month-old son, Evan. and continue to work on some cases. I have been working on cases sent to me through Legal Aid. If I am required to go to court, I either ask a fellow church member to look after Evan or if I am lucky, the court date coincides with my husband's off day. He is a pharmacist and sometimes he is off during the week.

Do you want to continue to stay at home?

Though I enjoy being with my wonderful son, Evan, I do miss working and it would help our family financially. It is my hope that I may find a job that is flexible with my family schedule.

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My church, Edgewood Presbyterian, is pretty awesome. I don't think it should be a secret though.

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I of I 9/27/20 II I :0 I PM GSept. 26, 2011 columns.uga.edu G:>LU1\1NS ACADEMIC AFFAIRS UGA welcomes new faculty Sundar Bh aradwaj James Carson Obie Clayton Jas on Colquitt Below is an alpha betical listing 15 schools and colleges. of new tenured and tenure-track T his information was provided faculty who have joined the univer by the Office of Faculty Affairs, sity since the previous listing was which acts as a liaison between the published in Columns a year ago. It university and the University Sys includes some faculty scheduled to tem of Georgia Board of Regents arrive in January. The new faculty on matters related to faculty ap Cynthia Dillard . linda Fox John Hulland ScoH Jackson are in departments spread across pointment, promotion and tenure.

Mark Abbe Jaime Dodge Scott Jackson Adam Milewski BenScheick Assistant Professor, Classics/ Assistant Professor, Law GRA Emment Scholar and Assistant Professor, Geology Assistant Professor, Insurance, Dodd School of Art Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences Legal Studies and Real Estate Erin Dolan Joseph Scott Miller SunJooAhn Associate Professor, Biochernisny Jennifer Julia Kaplan Professor, Law Lakshman Segar Assistant Professor, Advertising and Molecular Biology Assistant Professor, Statistics Associate Professor, Clillical and Anand Mohan Administrative Phannacy Diane Marie Amann Kylee Jo Duberstein William Keller Assistant Professor, Food Science Professor, Law Assistant Professor, Animal Professor, International Affairs, and Technology AjayShanna Science and Director of the Center for Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Michael Bachmann International Trade and Security James Monogan ID Radiology Associate Professor, Physics Christopher Eaket Assistant Professor, and Astronomy AssiStant Professor, English/ Elizabeth King Political Science Kimberly Renee Skobba Theatre and Film Studies Assistant Professor, Forestry and ' Assistant Professor, Housing and Lynn Bailey Natural Resources and Ecology All~nMoore Consumer Economics Professor and Department Head, Jennifer Elkins Professor; Genetics .foods and Nutrition Assistant Professor, Social Work Hartmut Koenitz Matthew Lee Smith Assistant Professor, David Nelson Assistant Professor, Health Sundar Bharadwaj linda Kirk Fox Telecommunications Assistant Professor, Genetics Promotion and Behavior Coca-Cola Chair and Professor, Dean and Professor, Housing and Marketing and Distribution Consumer Economics FanbinK.ong Silvia Noeueron-Liu Nanette Soina Alison Smith Bramlet H.J. Garrett and Technolozy and Literacy Education ASsistant Professor, Environment Assistant Professor, Elementary Belinda Stillion Southard and Design and Social Studies Education Richard Lankau Peter O'Neill Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology Assistant Professor, Comparative Communication Studies Marin Talbot Brewer David Gay Literature Assistant Professor, Plant Assistant Professor, Mathematics Pablo Lapegna Andrea Sweigart Pathology Assistant Professor, Sociology Andrew Owsiak Assistant Professor, Genetics Jennifer Gay Assistant Professor, International L Elizabeth Burch Assistant Professor, Health Karl Ferdinand Lechtre<:k Affairs Joseph Tobin Associate Professor, Law Promotion and Behavior Assistant Professor, Cellular Professor, Elementary and Social Biology Jennifer Palmer Studies Education Kun-Wong Byon Laura Gennan Assistant Professor, History Assistant Professor, Kinesiology Assistant Professor, Anthropology Elizabeth Weeks Leonard Mary Elizabeth Tobin Associate Professor, Law Bradley Paye Professor, English James Michael Carson Stuart Gillan Assistant Professor, Banking and Amos Distinguished Professor of Associate Professor, Banking and Zachary Lewis Finance Susan Turnquist Insurance Finance Assistant Professor, Microbiology Associate Professor, Pathology JoeJinPhua Michael Chamberlain TaiGuo Rebecca Liebexman Assistant Professor, Advertising Antonio Webb Associate Professor, F ores tty and Associate Professor, Anatomy and Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Biological and Natural Resources Radiology Communication Science and David Porinchu Agricultural Engineering Special Education Associate Professor, Geography YoonJoon Choi Brian Haas Han-Rong Weng Assistant Professor, Social Work Assistant Professor, Psychology Dexi Liu Gavin Joseph Putter Assistant Professor, Department Head and Professor, Associate Professor, Health Policy Pharmaceutical and Bjomedical Doris Christopher Jerayr Haleblian Pharmaceutical and B1omedical and Management Sciences Professor, Workforce Education, Associate Professor, Management Sciences Leadership and Social Jane Quandt Kandauda Wickrama Foundations Kelsey Alison Hart LiangLiu Associate Professor, Small Animal Professor, Child and Family Assistant Professor, Large Animal Assistant Professor, Statistics Medicirie and Surgery Development Obie Clayton Medicine Hollowell Professor, Social Work Bettina Love Stephen Ramos Nina Wurzburger Natoya Hill Haskins Assistant Professor, Elementary · Assistant Professor, Enviroru,nent . Assis~~ Professor, Ecology Adriane Colburn Assistant Professor, Counseling and Social Studies Education · and Design · •• .. Assistant Professor, Dodd School and Human Development ,•, I • ' ,' :)in'Xie. of Art ZhenqiuLu Jennifer Rice . · ·. ' Assistant Professor, Chemistry DeLoris Wenzel Hesse Assistant·Professor, Educational Assistant Professor, Geography Jason Alan Colquitt Associate Professor, Cellular Psychology and Instructional Celim Ytldizh.an WJ.!son Professor, Management Biology Technology Arthur Roberts Assistant Professor, Banking and Assistant Professor, Finance Barbara Crawford Brian Higgins julieLuft Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Professor, Mathematics and Assistant Professor, Microbiology Professor, Mathematics and Sciences Sonja Zabel Science Education Science Education ·. Assistant Professor, Small Animal Karen Marie Hilyard Emily Jane Sahakian Medicine and Surgery Marcus Cunha Assistant Professor, Health JoergMayer Assistant Professor, Theatre and Associate Professor, Marketing Promotion and Behavior Associate Professor, Small Animal Film Studies james Jiaohui Zhang and Distribution Medicine and Surgery Professor, Kinesiology Jolm Hulland Kristin Sayeski Cynthia Dillard Am old Professor, Marketing and Toni Miles Assistant Professor, MingZhang Early Professor of Elementary and Distribution Professor, Epidemiology and Communication Sciences and Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Social Studies Education Biostatistics, and Director of the Special Education and Biostatistics Institute of Gerontology 1-he percentage rncrease reuects ti1C 'Jump to $998 million in 2010 from $805 miWon in UNIVERSI~ CABINET C ~ Yl; '-n 5 • ) _6 // J .2007. The jncreasc is due in large part to do 0 9f nations that many colleges require from fru1s in order to purch:1se or retain season rickets, Cabznet approves changes to unzverszty s .. t.he Chronicle reponed. -MaHWeeks non-discrimination, anti-harassment policy By MaH Weeks mweeks@uga. edu The new policy makes clear that: Plant pansies like the pros With' their colorful faces and cold-weather The cabinet approved an update to • All complaints, including those 'involving students, will be handled by the tolerance, pansies are an eab)' landscape edi the university's Non-Discri..mjnation Equal Opportunity Office tion-unless they are installed inconectly. and Anti-Harassment policy at its • It covers sexual violence Gary vVade, a UGA Cooperative Exten Sept. 15 meeting. sion horticulturist, says planting like the pros The updated policy reflects rec • It covers situations where a person is incapable of giving consent due to the is the best way to have beautiful flowers and ommendations from a UGA worki..ttg use of drugs, alcohol or an intellectual or other disability less hearta<:hes and bacbches. His top rips: group led by Rebecca H. White, dean • It applies to all the university's programs and educational activities, on and • Dott~t phtn.t more than y&u can maintain. ofthe School ofLaw, and a "Dear Col off campus league" letter that was issued in April "Anii11al flowet·s are high maintenance and • It applies to everyone-employees, students, volunteers .and visitors require a lot of care to keep them looking by the U.S. Department of Education a their best,., Wade said. to institutions across the country. • Disclosure of consensual relationships when one party has supervisory power :s • Plant at the right time of year. In cooler While not substantially different, and removal from any decisions involving the subordinate with whom there north Georgia, install them between now and the·l\ew ·policy clarifieS aspects· oCit is a dating or sexual relationship f.S Oct. L Don't plant too early. predecessor.The policy changes, which • Even when confidentiality is requested, it cannot be guaranteed \-Yac;l.e also says to: are effective immediately, mark the first • Ch(>oSe a spot that gets;ftill so.n and drains update since January 2009. • Within 60 days of the filing of a complaint, the investigatirg officer will provide well to prevent disease problems. T he cabinet also approved the notice of the outcome of the investigation or will provide an estimate of the . ~ additional time that will be needed t<;. • Plant partsies on beds raised 6 to 12 inches naming of four interior spaces in the above the surrounding soil to ensure good Richard B. Russell Building, which will • If the investigation reveals inappropriate or unprofessional conduct that does drainage and improve visibility. bouse the special collections libraries, not rise to the level of the NOAH policy or the law, the university still may take • Broad~ fercili7-er, such as 10-10-10, at as well as the nanUng ofthe Stacey Ann disciplinary action; and a rate of 2 cups per 100 sq'WU'e feet over the Boe Equestrian Stall at the Equestrian • Either party has the right to appeal the investigation's decision. bed.~~ it into the top4 inches of soil. Complex. The group also approved • Spac~ plants out 8-10 'incfies apart. the uruversity's 2014 holiday calendar. • Plant the pansy bed from the inside out so you won't crush any plants. • Keep the bed moist, but not too wet. \Vater between 6 and 9 a.m. Apply liquid fertilizer OFACE OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY once a month throughout the winter. • Groom pansy beds once a week by remov Embracing diversity speaker: Step outside comfort zone ingspent blossoms and seedpods. By Sara Freeland Source: ~~~ oj Agncultural and Enwonmenlal ScientijS each of our campuses understand that [email protected] diversity, inclusion and tl1 e work of celebrating and embracing diversity is }ace Weaver, director of the Insti everyone's job," said Michelle Cook, in Private practice tute of Native American Studies and terim associate provost for instirutional UGA's School of Law placed second for the religion professor at UGA, spoke about diversity. "We are truly a comm uruty, standard of living enjoyed by its graduates who the value of diversity in education and and we hope that everyone will take enter private practice after graduation. The the importance of difference at the the opportunity to engage with your study used median starting salaries, average annual Embracing Diversity lecture. UGA commuruty to promote and debt payments, estimated federal and state "You need not only an education further diversity." that teaches you what American looks Yosan Negga (left) received the Diversity Also at thelecture, two scholarships taxes and cost of living adjustments like, you need an education where your were handed out. The Black Aluinni for areas where graduates work. Scholarship and Delirek Bryant received professors and fellow students look like the Black Alumni Scholarship. Scholarship was presented to Dedrek The top 10 law schools in the America and aU ofits diversity," he said. Bryant from Valdosta. 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Russell Building, which will • If the investigation reveals inappropriate or unprofessional conduct that does drainage and improve visibility. house the special collections libraries, not rise to the level of the NOAH policy or the law, the university still may take • Broadcast fertilizer, such as 10-1 0~ 10, at as well as the naming ofthe Stacey Ann 11 disciplinary action; and a rate of 2 cups per l 00 square feer over the Boe Equestrian Stall at the Equestrian • Either party has the right to appeal the investigation's decision. bed. Rake it into the t<>p 4 inches of soil. Complex. The group also approved • Space plants out 8-10 in<:hes apart. the university's 2014 holiday calendar. • Plant the pansy bed from the inside out so you wo,q't crush any plants. • Keep the bed moist, but riot too wet. Water OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY h~;:trcen 6 and 9 a,.m. Apply liquid fertilizer once a month throughout the winter. • Groom pansy beds once a week by remov~ Embracing diversity speaker: Step outside comfort zone ing spent blossoms and seedpods. Sara Freeland each of our campuses understand that Soui'Cfl: Col~ of Agricunural and &Mroomental S<:lences By tree/[email protected] diversity, inclusion and the work of celebrating and embracing'diversity is Jace Weaver, director of the Insti everyone's job," said Michelle Cook, in Co~))'\.)'\.s l·Private:prac,tice rute of Native American Srudies and terim associate provost for ii1stitU.tional UGA's School of Law placed second for the religion professor at UGA, spoke about diversity. "vVe are truly a community, standard of living enjoyed by its graduates who the value of diversity in education and and we hope that everyone will take ~ j~bjJ I enter private practice after graduation. 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It States, you're going to encol.lntet dif srudent who exhibits dedication to ra Rank law Scbool ., is by encountering people of different ference- that includes an increasingly . cial"equality. Bryant has been involved 1. Texas backgrounds, culrures,life experiences diverse state of Georgia," Weaver's aid. ~tli the.Upwai-d·Bound progtain and 2• . USA and orientations that you develop "And if you're going to succeed in an the People to People Leadership.Suin 3. Vanderbilt empathy and critical thinking-by increasingly diverse country or in an mit at Harvard. The 2011 Diversity 4. VirQinia discovering that there are different increasingly interconnected world, you Scholarship was presented to Yosan 5. Northwestern ways-of seeing the world other than will need to-understand and deal with Negga, a freshman from Atlanta. The 6. Chicago your·own." difference." scholarship is need-based atttl designed 7. 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ATLANTA- Chief Judge Harry Jay Altman II of the Southern Judicial Circuit has been designated to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court in place of Justice David Nahmias to hear the appeal in Grossi Consulting et al. v. Sterling Currency Group (S11A1550).

The Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case during its 10 a.m. session Monday, Oct. 3. In this Fulton County case, a consulting firm is appealing a court decision involving its dispute with a company that has made millions trading Iraqi currency. At issue is which company owns the Web site, and in addition to hearing arguments, Altman will participate in the court's decision.

Altman, 60, of Thomasville was appointed to the bench in 1994 by then-Georgia Gov. Zell Miller. He has been re-elected four times in the Southern Judicial Circuit, which covers Brooks, Colquitt, Echols, Lowndes and Thomas counties. Prior to serving on the bench. He practiced law in Thomasville in the law firm of Altman and McGraw with his father.

His wife, attorney Gail Lane Altman, is the sole practitioner of the firm, named Altman & Lane.

Altman is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and the University of Georgia School of Law. Among a number of honors, he has served on the state bar's Board of Governors, the State Ethics Commission, and the Board of Trustees for the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education. He also served as a member of the State Board of Court Reporting from 2008 to 2010.

In addition to his wife, Altman has a daughter, Solesse "Sunny" Altman, who is a junior at Washington & Lee.

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Awlaki death rekindles legal debate on targeting Americans

The slaying of two Americans renews questions about whether killing U.S. citizens is legal under rules of war or constitutes an extrajudicial execution in violation of U.S. and international law.

Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer

10:38 PM PDT, September 30, 2011

The killing of two Americans by a U.S. drone strike in advertisement Yemen has reibrnited a debate about whether targeting U.S. citizens - even terrorists - is legal under the rules of war or constitutes an extrajudicial execution that ignores their rights.

The Obama administration contends that U.S.-bom radical cleric Anwar Awlaki was a legitimate target because he played an "operational" role in AI Qaeda, alleging that, among other plots, he directed a 2009 Christmas Day plan to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner.

"Awlaki was the leader

of external operations for AI Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," President Obama said Friday. "In that role, he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Americans."

But some human rights advocates and legal scholars said the administration had never produced evidence to back up that claim. They said the 40-year-old cleric was an influential recruiter and motivator, but there was little evidence to directly link him to belligerent operations against the United States.

The attack also killed Samir Khan, 25, a U.S. citizen and anti-American propagandist who ran an

Al Qaeda-linkcd website that called for attacks on the United States.

Diane Marie Amann. a L1niversit; of Georgia Ia V\ professor V\ho has monitored terrorism trials for the National Institult: or ~lil i taf) Justice. said the

"Viewed throu 'h the lens of ordinary criminal justice. for the government to kill a suspect rather than

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put him on trial is summary cxccufion, clear!) forbiJdcn b) U.S. and international Ia"" alike," Amann said. "Viewed through the lens of armed conflict. the result is different, hov-;ever: The laws ofwar permit a state to kill its enemies."

An array of international law experts defended the legality of the airstrike, illustrating the conflicting interpretations of law in the fight against terrorism.

"There is strong linkage between Awlaki and the Christmas Day bomber," said Duke law professor Scott Silliman, a former Air force staff judge advocate, referring to the young Nigerian reportedly groomed by Awlaki before his botched attempt to detonate explosives smuggled aboard the plane in his underpants.

"We do know there were also some email links between Awlaki and Maj. lNidal Malik] Hasan at Ft. Hood," Silliman said, in reference to the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused in the Nov. 5, 2009, shootings that left 13 dead at the U.S. military base in Texas.

"When you put that together, and with some indications in the intelligence community that he was the head of or at least very active in the leadership of AI Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, I think it was clear he was more than just a propagandist. That type of activity puts him in the category of a legitimate target."

Amos Guiora, a University of Utah Jaw professor and author of a forthcoming book on targeted killings, said U.S. military and intelligence agencies were within their rights to eliminate Awlaki. He said the operation appeared to have been carried out with appropriate preparation and care to avoid civilian casualties, despite the ostensibly unintended killing of Khan, who was with Awlaki at the time.

"This attack appears to have met the criteria of proportionality, military necessity and the absence of alternatives to be in full accordance with a state's right to aggressive self-defense," said Guiora, a former Israel Defense Forces legal advisor involved in targeted killing decisions in the Gaza Strip in the mid-1990s.

Constitutional rights advocates have clashed with that point of view throughout the so-called war on terrorism pronounced by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The killing of Awlaki was "the latest of many aiTronts to domestic and international law," said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, disparaging the claimed executive power to kill any U.S. citizen deemed a threat.

Ben Wizner, national security litigation director for the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that lethal force beyond the battlefield is lawful "only as a last resort to counter an imminent threat of deadly attack."

Much of the legal and ethical dispute festers because the administration has invoked state secrecy to prevent disclosing to either the public or judiciary the evidence it says it holds pointing to Awlaki's operational involvement.

Micah Zenko, a Council on foreign Relations fellow on conflict prevention, said the known evidence linking Awlaki to AI Qaeda operations is slim but that the intelligence agencies and military special forces involved in such a strike would be unlikely to disclose any detail that could compromise

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intelligence gathering and future targeted killings.

Then-Defense Secretary Rober:t M. Gates made that position clear in a federal court filing a year ago, when he asserted a state secrets privilege in urbring a federal judge to dismiss a suit brought by Awlaki's father, Nasser, seeking a court injunction against any attack on his son. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the elder Awlaki's case, saying it wasn't the court's role to intervene in military operations.

Awlaki's U.S. citizenship didn't entitle him to any special right of due process beyond what a foreign terrorism suspect would have, the legal analysts said.

A 1942 Supreme Court decision upholding the war-crimes convictions and death sentences of Nazi infiltrators caught attempting to sabotage East Coast defense operations rejected special consideration of one saboteur who claimed U.S. citizenship. The justices found all eight men to be "enemy belligerents" subject to the prosecution and punishment allowed under the law of war.

In Ex parte Quirin, the justices found all eight men to be "enemy belligerents" subject to the prosecution and punishment allowed under the law of war.

"The constitution guarantees due process for every 'person,' not just for citizens, and the laws of war do not preclude the possibility of one state's citizen taking up arms against his own country," said David Glazier, a national security law professor at Loyola Law School.

"From the U.S. government's perspective, that's the real beauty oftrcating [the fight with AI Qaedal as an armed conflict," Glazier said. "Both U.S. national and international law are in agreement that the nationality of the target doesn't matter."

carol. williqms@latimes. com

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Baker, Donelson, Beannan, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, announces the addition of two new attorneys to its Chattanooga office: David J. Holesinger and Melanie C. Walker

Mr. Holesinger joins the Finn as an associate in the Advocacy department, where he works on a wide variety of business to business litigation matters. He is a 2007 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Mr. Holesinger clerked for Chief Judge John C. Cook in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Ms. Walker, who also joins Baker Donelson as an associate in the Advocacy department, represents clients in various types of litigation. She is a 2009 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Ms. Walker worked as an immigration paralegal, assisting a wide-range of clients with their employment and family immigration issues.

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